Lindsay Curtis is a health & medical writer in South Florida. She worked as a communications professional for health nonprofits and the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of ...

My introduction to age-related macular degeneration (AMD) was a day of hell. I’m 76 now, but I had cataract surgery when I was 70. About 4 days after the procedure, I had what’s called a central ...

This story is part of a series on the current progression in Regenerative Medicine. This piece starts a series dedicated to the eye and improvements in restoring vision. In 1999, I defined ...

Iconic Fleetwood Mac frontwoman Stevie Nicks, 76, revealed she was diagnosed with wet macular degeneration in a recent interview with Rolling Stone. Macular degeneration is an eye disease, usually age ...

Scientists have developed a new eyedrop that can ferry protective compounds all the way to the retina, paving the way for a less-invasive injection-free method of managing sight-stealing diseases such ...

Left: Simulation of a patient's vision with macular degeneration. Right: Simulation of the patient’s vision enhanced with the PRIMA eye prosthesis. A tiny wireless chip implanted in the back of the ...

Patients with age-related macular degeneration (AMD) initially may present with distortions in fine visual perception, and disease may be asymptomatic. As the disease develops over time, vision ...

Ask a clinical question and tap into Healio AI's knowledge base. Assessment of visual function by testing for visual acuity, dark adaptation, contrast sensitivity and evaluation of retinal sensitivity ...