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age-related vision loss
April is Women's Eye Health and Awareness Month
Women in the United States are at a higher risk for eye disease, with two out of every three people living with vision loss or vision problems being women.

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Research underway to develop artificial retina
Spanish researchers have created an artificial retina that could mesh better with the human eye better than current artificial retinas.

age-related vision loss
New imaging technique could help in fight against age related vision loss
This technology could help researchers learn more about the causes of eye diseases that lead to vision loss.

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Neovascular Macular Degeneration Patients Can Gain Visual Acuity After Cataract Surgery
Researchers compared the visual outcomes and rate of intraoperative complications in patients with nAMD and control eyes that did not have nAMD that underwent phacoemulsification cataract surgery o...

hemianopia
Study will test the effectiveness of retraining vision after stroke
30% of stroke survivors experience a loss of vision or blindness in half of their field of vision on the right or left side. This condition is known as hemianopia and there is currently no cure or...

gene therapy
Gene therapy technique may offer hope as a glaucoma treatment
A study in Nature Communications details the research that involved a protein known as Protrudin.

iPS cells
World's first iPS transplant of visual cells performed
The transplant team used iPS cells grown from the blood cells of a healthy donor.

age related macular degeneration
High fat diet linked to higher risk of blindness
Researchers discovered that a high fat diet disrupts the ability of retinal pigment epithelial cells to adjust to the changing conditions in the eye as it ages, which can result in long-term retin...

age-related macular degeneration
Macular Degeneration | Hard versus Soft Drusen
Drusen can be either hard or soft and while both types need to be monitored, hard drusen don't usually cause vision problems.