Somewhere around 200 million people worldwide live with age-related macular degeneration, and for those with the dry form of ...

By far the most expensive disease in the world is blindness and the reason for that is really quite simple. It's because the mortality doesn't change, the use of resources skyrockets, but the ...

A groundbreaking retinal implant, PRIMA, is restoring central vision in patients with geographic atrophy (GA), an advanced form of macular degeneration that blinds roughly 1 million Americans. Unlike ...

It's taboo to consume seaweed soup before exams in Korea since it can lead to failing the exam. The belief is rooted in the idea that the slippery nature of seaweed may cause people to slip and falter ...

Opus Genetics, Inc. (Nasdaq: IRD), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing gene therapies to restore vision and prevent blindness in patients with inherited retinal diseases (IRDs) (the ...

Doctors are calling an artificial retina that partially restores eyesight a breakthrough for the blind. Dean Lloyd, of California, joined a clinical trial for the artificial retina in hopes of curing ...

A retinal implant has partly restored vision in blind mice, suggesting it could one day benefit people with conditions such as age-related macular degeneration, which involves a progressive loss of ...

Millions of people around the world are affected by retinal degenerative diseases. In most cases, loss of vision is caused by damage to the macula, a region in the center of the retina. The macula is ...

Scientists have found a way to use nanotechnology to create a 3D 'scaffold' to grow cells from the retina -- paving the way for potential new ways of treating a common cause of blindness. Scientists ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you were to tell me that at the beginning of the year, I would spend half of it going blind, having eye surgery and dealing ...

A project at Shanghai's Fudan University has developed a new retinal prosthesis and used it to restore vision to a number of blind mice. Described in Science the implant is said to offer advantages ...