The condition appears to be triggered when the optic nerve swells, choking off its blood supply because the nerve's pathway out of the eye is too small, she explained. This could happen when glucose ...

Age-related macular degeneration is the leading cause of vision loss in those who are age 50 or older. In fact, almost 20 million people in the U.S. have some type of age-related macular ...

Doctors at Massachusetts Eye and Ear hospital in Boston began probing whether there was a link between weight-loss jabs and blindness after ... The bar chart below compares the rate of NAION ...

The ultimate herding dog, Border Collies are the Einsteins of the canine world, frequently topping the charts as the smartest dog breed. But what makes them tick? And are Border Collies suitable for ...

To prevent unrest, Shackleton kept three of the ... One day, after Worsley declined to wear tinted goggles, he suffered from snow blindness. But he and the others learned from their mistakes ...

Using the UK as a model for high income countries, from a population-based incidence study, the annual cumulative incidence of severe visual impairment/blindness (SVL/BL ... shape/letter-based acuity ...

In the last two decades, it has become possible to record concurrently from several hundred ganglion cells in an eye-cup preparation ... registrable blindness. Treatment options remain limited, and ...

The nonprofit eye health and safety organization Prevent Blindness has received its largest ever monetary donation from the ...

The company offers year-round educational services on the conditions, using this month, in particular, to guide patients to ...

February is Low Vision Awareness Month, and each year in Ohio, nearly 4,000 children suffer serious eye injuries each year ...