A new decision support tool can assist optometrists and ophthalmologists in the care of children aged 3 to 17 years with ...

Luminopia, Inc., a digital health company pioneering a new class of treatments for neuro-visual disorders, announced its first international licensing agreement with ROHTO Pharmaceutical Co., LTD, a ...

Award-winning actor Anne Hathaway recently shared how an early onset cataract left her legally blind in one eye for a decade.

Amblyopia is a common childhood visual disorder caused by abnormal visual experience that drives visual cortical plasticity during the sensitive period. The timing and forms of treatment with patching ...

Physician and molecular biologist Katherine High remembers sitting at a staff meeting of the gene therapy company Spark Therapeutics on November 15, 2018, waiting to hear from a guest speaker, when ...

A University of Florida scientist has developed a new, safer gene therapy to treat inherited eye diseases. Clinical trials are underway for two genetic conditions, X-linked retinoschisis (XLRS) and ...

Over 24 months, patients with dry age‑related macular degeneration (AMD) who received light therapy with three wavelengths gained clarity of vision, had a reduced incidence of new geographic atrophy, ...

Anesthetizing the retina of a “lazy” eye for just two days can restore vision in mice. In the vision disorder amblyopia (or “lazy eye”), impaired vision in one eye early in life causes neural ...

Certain multi-centered randomized clinical trials of conventional treatment of children with amblyopia revealed greater improvement of the visual acuity of the amblyopic eye in patients that were ...

Scientists claim to have found a way to restore vision in people with a common developmental eye disorder by “rebooting” the retina to its early state, enabling it to grow and cure itself. Researchers ...

Temporarily anesthetizing the retina briefly reverts the activity of the visual system to that observed in early development and enables growth of responses to the amblyopic eye, new research shows.