Macular degeneration is an eye disease that affects your central vision. It occurs when the macula, part of your retina, becomes damaged. Let's explore ways to protect your eyes if you have ...

Gold dust in eyes might seem like an unusual therapy – but a new mouse study in the US shows the approach could potentially ...

Macular degeneration is the most common cause of age-related vision loss in older adults. In a healthy eye, light travels through the pupil and hits the retina, the inner back layer of your eye.

Macular degeneration usually refers to the age-related degenerative changes in the retina that can result in loss of central vision. It is caused by abnormal blood vessel growth (a condition ...

Age-related macular degeneration begins with weakening of retinal pigment epithelium cells (RPEs), a layer of cells that support the retina's photoreceptors. When degeneration occurs, the affected ...

It is a good test for screening for the development of "wet" macular degeneration in patients with "dry" macular degeneration.

Macular edema is swelling in the eye's retina that causes blurry vision but can progress to more serious vision loss. The most common condition associated with macular edema is diabetic ...

A remarkable telescopic eyepiece implanted inside the eye has been designed to improve the vision of people with macular degeneration. The Implantable Miniature Telescope (IMT) is smaller than a ...

That’s more often true when eyesight changes are caused by a condition such as age-related macular degeneration ... both with Mass Eye and Ear in Boston. Telescopes mounted on glasses can ...

Based on the scientific progress achieved in the past few years, it is possible that patients with myopic macular degeneration complicated by CNV may benefit from a new ophthalmic frontier of ...

In mice both with retinitis pigmentosa (RP) and lab-grown human retina tissue with damage akin to age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a daily drop prevented photoreceptors in the eye from ...