Macular degeneration is the most common cause of age-related vision loss in older adults. In a healthy eye, light travels through the pupil and hits the retina, the inner back layer of your eye.

Macular degeneration usually refers to the age-related degenerative changes in the retina that can result in loss of central vision. It is caused by abnormal blood vessel growth (a condition ...

Many people who have age-related macular degeneration don't know it. But ignoring this condition can lead to vision loss that can make it hard to perform everyday tasks. Many people who have ...

Six clinical studies (A Study of rhuFAB V2 [Ranibizumab] in Subjects with Subfoveal Choroidal Neovascularization Secondary to Age-Related Macular Degeneration [PIER], Prospective Optical Coherence ...

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD ... making everyday activities like reading and recognizing faces difficult. There are two main types: dry (atrophic) AMD and wet (neovascular) AMD.

Soliddd Corp., an optical technology company whose mission is to restore sight for people living with low vision disorders, announced that it will be unveiling the Beta version of its forthcoming ...

The Amsler Grid: With this test, you can wear reading ... While macular edema is often caused by diabetes, there are other possible causes. For instance, if you have eye surgery for conditions such as ...

Based on the scientific progress achieved in the past few years, it is possible that patients with myopic macular degeneration complicated by CNV may benefit from a new ophthalmic frontier of ...

Over a 22-month period, 12 eyes from seven patients with neovascular age-related macular degeneration or diabetic macular edema presented with noninfectious intraocular inflammation after ...

—That was the question pondered by a team of researchers in Australia, who set out to determine whether the newly revised polygenic risk score for age-related macular degeneration is an ...

The different forms of macular degeneration encompass a wide range of clinical, psychophysical and histological findings. The complexity of the molecular basis of monogenic macular disease is now ...