Visual impairment did not stop Khaleesi Sinclair from acing her Primary Exit Profile (PEP) assessment earning a place at her ...

Ziva Vestal is entering fourth grade at Coshocton Elementary School. Ziva has been blind since birth and has optic nerve hypoplasia, a condition where the optic nerves that connect the eyes to the ...

A Henderson nonprofit organization that teaches life skills to blind youths is rethinking how it will provide its services ...

When astronauts began spending six months and more aboard the International Space Station, they started to notice changes in ...

Autosomal dominant optic atrophy (ADOA) causes progressive childhood blindness — but what if we could stop it? Boston Children's Hospital researchers Drs. Thomas Schwarz and Chen Ding have identified ...

Recent research introduces a soft, injectable material designed for use in the eye to help protect and support damaged ...

Autosomal dominant optic atrophy (ADOA), the most common genetic optic neuropathy, is an insidious disease. It often presents slowly during childhood by way of blurry vision, trouble reading or ...

A sutureless device for peripheral nerve repair could be available on the market in the coming months. The Food and Drug Administration has authorized a polymer-based device developed by medical ...

The US Food and Drug Administration has approved a new system for nerve repair based on light-activated polymers rather than surgical stitches. The flexible polymer system was developed by the ...

The surplus of photons triggered a signal through my optic nerves, and in a millisecond, a web of electrical signals reached across my brain, branching into billions of neurons and trillions of ...

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