Drugs used to treat blindness-causing disorders could be successfully administered by eye drops rather than unpleasant and expensive eye injections Drugs used to treat blindness-causing diso... Read more
Researchers at the Bonn University Department of Ophthalmology and US colleagues successfully implanted new cells under the retina Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the most frequent... Read more
University of Nebraska Medical Center officials say researchers there have devised a new way to create stem cells that could cure several conditions causing blindness. A team led by ophthalm... Read more
Could herald a new potential therapy for GA University of Kentucky researchers, led by Dr. Jayakrishna Ambati, have made an exciting finding in the “dry” form of age-related macu... Read more
“This is a major advance in the field of vision restoration” A team of University of California, Berkeley, scientists in collaboration with researchers at the University of Munich and... Read more
Bio-Retina restores vision to AMD sufferers almost immediately following the simple implantation process At least 25-30 million people worldwide have age-related macular degeneration (AMD),... Read more
International experts have developed a prosthetic retina A REVOLUTIONARY device that could restore sight to patients with one of the most common causes of blindness has shown “encouraging” r... Read more
GA is an untreatable condition that causes blindness in millions University of Kentucky researchers, led by Dr. Jayakrishna Ambati, have made a major breakthrough in the “dry” fo... Read more
An exciting new prospect for a novel therapy for AMD Scientists at Trinity College Dublin have discovered that a part of the immune system called the inflammasome is involved in regulating t... Read more
The breakthrough holds out the hope of a cure in the future for age-related macular degeneration Scientists have improved the sight of two people who were almost blind by injecting their eye... Read more
After five years, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has finally given approval to an eye telescope that treats macular degeneration, the leading cause of blindness in the U.S. The Implan... Read more
Image via Wikipedia Emerging technologies successfully stimulate retinas ravaged by retinitis pigmentosa, age-related macular degeneration and other diseases to give sufferers a new lease on... Read more