Age-related macular degeneration is a common cause of vision loss, with existing treatments only able to slow its progression ...

A groundbreaking European trial has shown that a new electronic eye implant, paired with augmented-reality glasses, can restore reading vision to patients blinded by geographic atrophy from dry ...

At the age of about 90, Nettie London started complaining to her assisted living facility about the quantity of garlic put in just about every food served. It was, she was told, because a lot of ...

After being treated with an electronic eye implant paired with augmented-reality glasses, people with sight loss have ...

The solution electronically bypasses the retina to send visual signals direct to the brain via the optical nerve.

Geographic atrophy due to age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of irreversible blindness and affects more than 5 million persons worldwide. No therapies to restore vision in ...

TUESDAY, Oct. 21, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Scientists have restored partial vision to people with a common form of blindness ...

Stanford researchers have restored functional sight to patients blinded by macular degeneration using a wireless, ...

The patient: A 34-year-old man named Brent Chapman in British Columbia, Canada The medical history: When Chapman was 13 years old, he had a rare and serious autoimmune reaction after taking a normal ...

Today, in the New England Journal of Medicin e, researchers announced that they restored some vision to elderly patients with ...

As people age, many develop presbyopia — age-related farsightedness that makes it hard to read things at close range — and may turn to reading glasses. But new research suggests another option may be ...

Injecting a fatty acid that is used to make very long fat molecules into the eyes of elderly mice improved their vision for up to a month, indicating that the natural compound could potentially be ...