Many of us are painfully aware of our body's increasing number of shortcomings as we get older. Sagging skin, hearing loss, receding hairlines and tending to use the bathroom more frequently than we ...

At first, the headlines in the newspaper began to get blurry, the bold print dissolving into fuzzy grayness. Next it became impossible to poke thread through a needle, so Florence Harper went to a ...

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 ...

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: My mother has been diagnosed with macular degeneration. Will she go blind? Am I at risk? Macular degeneration affects the center of the retina in the back of the eye, which is called ...

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of irreversible blindness in adults who are more than 50. A new study revealed that the condition might affect 77 million Europeans come ...

Judi Dench says macular degeneration has affected her vision. (Karwai Tang/WireImage via Getty Images) Dench has shared in previous interviews that the condition has affected her ability to read ...

Macular degeneration is an incurable eye disease and the leading cause of blindness in people 55 and older in the United States, affecting more than 10 million Americans. Since many people diagnosed ...

Age-related macular degeneration or AMD, is the biggest cause of sight loss across the world. And according to experts, smoking is among the main reasons the condition leads to total blindness.

Age related macular degeneration or AMD leads to loss of vision in around 1.5 million people in the United Kingdom and millions of others around the world. In a new study researchers have discovered a ...

The macula is the center part of your retina. It gives you your central vision, what you see right in front of you. When the macula is damaged, you can still see around the edges of your vision, ...

The FDA said it cannot approve the application in its present form for the treatment of wet age-related macular degeneration.