Blindness Articles & Stories

Anti-Cholesterol Drugs May Aid in Avoiding AMD Vision Loss

Recent research that links the causes of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) with blocked arteries suggests that anti-cholesterol drugs may prevent the eye disease, the leading cause of blindness amongst elderly individuals in the U.S. The study is published in the journal Cell Metabolism a... Read More

Electronic Eye Implant May Restore Vision to the Blind

Promising early results have demonstrated that blind patients were able to restore their vision with a sub-retinal microchip, according to the first part of the second clinical trial for the device taking place in Germany. Published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society, the study examined p... Read More

New Breakthrough Can Help Prevent Blindness

Certain kinds of cells, known as corneal limbal stromal cells, have been identified in the eye, which could lead to a new treatment to cure blinding eye conditions. Published in the British Journal for Opthalmology, a team of researchers from the University of Southhampton discovered that thes... Read More

Australian Women Receives World's First Bionic Eye Implant

Researchers from Bionic Vision Australia have successfully performed the first bionic implant of an early prototype in Melbourne. The bionic eye was implanted in a woman who suffers from dramatic vision loss due to retinitis pigmentosa. Read More

Light Exposure during Pregnancy Critical for Fetal Eye Development

The eye is a structure that depends on light in order to function. It also requires light to develop normally during pregnancy. New research now provides scientists with a basic understanding of fetal eye progression and the ocular conditions caused by vascular problems. Read More

Choosing Between Traditional and Custom Lasik

Lasik eyesight-correction surgery, a phenomenal breakthrough when it was first approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration in 1995, has recently been trumped big-time by the innovation known as wavefront Lasik technology, which is some 25 times more precise than its older cousin. The... Read More

Experimental Treatments Show Promise In the Restoration of Vision

A retinal prosthesis and fetal tissue transplant are two experimental treatments that appear to restore partial vision to people with blinding eye diseases. Presented at Neuroscience 2009, the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, the findings may lead to new treatments for the blind... Read More

Lasik Helps U.S. Retain Pilots, Astronauts

The natural human aging process is in a constant war with the U.S. military and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Aging has always degraded the vision of Air Force pilots, Navy divers and NASA astronauts - and this has made it difficult for the respective services to retain t... Read More