The AMD pipeline presents opportunities via emerging novel therapies focusing on innovative mechanisms such as gene therapy, mitochondria-targeting peptides, and complement inhibition. Key drugs in ...

For decades, people with advanced age-related macular degeneration (AMD) — the leading cause of irreversible blindness in ...

“Where this dead retina was a complete blind spot, vision was restored,” Dr. Frank Holz, the study’s lead author and an ...

An electronic retinal implant has improved vision in people with age-related macular degeneration—but it isn’t a full ...

A retinal implant developed by Science Corp. has for the first time restored some functional vision to patients with a severe ...

A small wireless chip and a pair of smart glasses are offering new hope to people who thought they’d never read again. The ...

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

The treatment involves inserting a tiny implant thinner than human hair under the retina. Patients then have to wear glasses ...

Researchers of the National Eye Institute found that the supplement—now known as the AREDS formula, containing vitamins C and ...

The device helped people with an advanced form of age-related macular degeneration, which affects about 1 million people in ...

Before receiving the implant, it was like having two black discs in my eyes, with the outside distorted,” said Sheila Irvine, ...

UB ophthalmologist Margaret DeAngelis leads work on the neurological condition that's the leading cause of blindness in ...