David Ming Pon, MD, an ophthalmologist based in Florida, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for convincing patients they needed treatment for wet age-related macular degeneration when they didn’t ...

Age-related macular degeneration, also called AMD, is the deterioration of the center of the retina called the macula. The macula is the part of the retina which is responsible for our central vision ...

Macular degeneration and macular dystrophy are eye conditions affecting the center of the retina. Although they share overlapping symptoms, their root causes and treatments differ. Macular ...

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Quitting smoking and getting regular eye exams may lower your risk of macular degeneration. Eating a Mediterranean diet can reduce your risk of advanced AMD by 41%. You can wear sunglasses that block ...

This story is part of a series on the current progression in Regenerative Medicine. This piece is part of a series dedicated to the eye and improvements in restoring vision. In 1999, I defined ...

Around a third of people over the age of 80 suffer from age-related macular degeneration (AMD), with an estimated 20 million Americans aged 40 and older currently living with AMD. Most cases are the ...

The staff of the Faculty of Biology and the Research Institute of the Moscow State University Faculty of Biological Sciences, together with colleagues from the IBH RAS, have developed a new optical ...