Medication is sometimes necessary to treat eye conditions and vision problems. Of course, this is highly dependent on the condition. Sometimes, the better option might be surgery, corrective wear, or ...

There's no cure, but treatment for age-related macular degeneration (AMD) may slow the disease and keep you from having serious loss of vision.Dry macular degeneration is the most common type. It ...

The appropriate treatment depends on the symptoms and form of the disease, such as dry or wet macular degeneration. In some cases, medications or surgery are required to treat the condition.

Scientists may be just a few years away from delivering new treatments for age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the leading cause of irreversible vision loss in people more than 50 years old.

Macular degeneration accounts for almost 50 percent of all visual impairment in the developed world and usually affects people over 50 years of age. In people with AMD, the central (reading) vision is ...

Wet age-related macular degeneration causes abnormal blood vessels to leak fluid under the retina, damaging central vision. While there's no cure, treatments can slow progression and help preserve ...

Fighting corneal disease. An initial experiment in mice looks promising. Chen and his team tested a mouse-sized version of the patch—about 2mm square, with nine 500-micrometer tall microneedles ...

According to the National Eye Institute, age-related macular degeneration impacts 11 million adults in the U.S. every year.Characterized by a loss of the vision needed to see straight ahead and by ...

Current treatments sometimes fail to help people with "wet" age-related macular degeneration-- and researchers now think they know why.. Wet AMD is caused by an overgrowth of blood vessels in the ...

To identify the molecular genetic cause of macular corneal dystrophy (MCD) in four probands, and characterize phenotypic similarities between MCD and keratoconus. We performed ophthalmological ...