Science is giving sight, sound, and speech a second chance. How might it change the way we age?
For the first time, researchers have restored some vision to people with a common type of eye disease by using a prosthetic retinal implant. If approved for broader use in the future, the treatment ...
Finally, there’s a new vision for addressing this common eye condition. Dry age-related macular degeneration slowly damages the macula, the part of the retina responsible for central vision.
An eye for an eye and a tooth… for an eye? A blind Canadian woman has had her vision partly restored after undergoing a bizarre operation that surgically implanted a tooth into her left eye socket.
Amblyopia, often called lazy eye, develops when the brain fails to receive balanced input from both eyes early in life. One eye becomes dominant, while the other lags behind. Standard care relies on ...
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is an untreatable vision loss problem impacting those over 50. The disease starts as a thinning of the macula (the part of the retina responsible for detailed ...
A Connecticut boy is among four children all born with severe childhood blindness who gained “life-changing improvements” to their vision after an experimental trial of gene therapy. Jace was just ...
Nicki Guy, 47, says a "phenomenal" bout of pioneering treatment has restored her vision after suffering from hypotony - or low eye pressure - which forced to give up driving ...
Several patients in a revolutionary clinical trial regained their ability to read when they received an extraordinary electronic eye implant that's paired with augmented reality glasses. Finally, ...