Impaired vision among the elderly may lead to cognitive decline-related functional limitations, investigators have found. In fact, 18% of older adults years who reported vision impairment also ...

- Post-hoc analysis from the GATHER trials, for the first time, signals that reduced rate of vision loss in patients receiving avacincaptad pegol (ACP) was correlated with reduced geographic atrophy ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A 28-year-old woman presented to the Tufts Medical Center emergency department with vision loss in the right eye ...

Science Corp.’s PRIMA BCI Implant Restores Functional Central Vision to Patients with Geographic Atrophy Caused By Age-Related Macular Degeneration, a Leading Cause of Blindness, The New England ...

For more than a century, neuroscience textbooks have treated damaged neurons in the adult central nervous system as a dead end, especially in the delicate circuitry that carries visual information ...

Diseases that affect the retina, the light-sensitive layer at the back of the eye, are a significant cause of visual impairment and blindness. Gene therapy holds promise for treating some of these ...

Vision loss can result from a number of different conditions, including refractive errors and cataracts. There are 2.2 billion people around the world who live with near or distance vision impairment, ...

LA JOLLA, CA—For people with macular telangiectasia type 2 (MacTel), an orphan retinal disorder that gradually destroys central vision, there have long been no approved treatment options. But now, a ...

Researchers have developed eye drops that extend vision in animal models of a group of inherited diseases that lead to progressive vision loss in humans, known as retinitis pigmentosa. Researchers at ...

A person with peripheral vision loss has difficulty seeing things above, below, or at the side without turning their head. This type of vision loss is also known as tunnel vision. Tunnel vision can ...

A 16-year-old boy was brought to the emergency room with an alarming complaint. Sudden vision loss in both eyes. The doctors were puzzled by the case, leading to a detailed examination, which ...