Inherited retinal dystrophies (IRD) are a set of rare eye diseases. They affect your retina, or the part of your eye that detects light. If you have IRD, you may find it hard to read or see in low ...

In a somewhat paradoxical twist, a few extra minutes of screen time can now actually help, rather than hurt, your eye health. That eye-catching claim has become a reality courtesy of the FDA, which ...

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

Impaired vision and blindness are common. About 3.4 million people in the US are blind or visually impaired. Vision is usually measured by visual acuity charts, and normal vision is expressed as 20/20 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . We found that current opaque eye patches can cause 18 problems during visual field testing. Most unusual was ...

A simple method of testing "twilight vision" gives reliable results in identifying people who have decreased visual acuity under low light conditions, according to a study in the May issue of ...

A visit to your local optician is about far more than updating prescriptions for glasses or contact lenses. While clear ...

A woman in Georgia went in for a routine eye exam, only to leave with a different diagnosis. Andrea Medford was "in shock" ...