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The three main types of juvenile macular degeneration (JMD) include Stargardt disease, X-linked retinoschisis, and Best disease. These result from gene mutations. Early treatment may help preserve ...

Myopic macular degeneration (MMD) is a serious eye condition that can cause vision loss that gets worse over time. Treatment may help reduce complications of MMD. Myopic macular degeneration (MMD ...

Researchers at Tufts University recently found that eating just two handfuls of pistachios a day can guard against macular degeneration ... while their peripheral vision remains largely unaffected.

Purpose To quantify retinal and choriocapillaris (CC) microvasculature in highly myopic (HM) eyes with myopic macular degeneration (MMD) using swept-source optical coherence tomography angiography (SS ...

Poor retinal health in midlife was associated with significantly higher risk for Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD) later in life, a new study showed. Investigators say the ...

At the Envision Summit 2025 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Mike Farkas, MD, discussed gene therapy research for retinal degenerations that sidetracks the current "status quo" therapies of AAV-based ...

Background Cardiovascular disease is a leading cause of global death. Prospective population-based studies have found that changes in retinal microvasculature are associated with the development of ...

Most of us take our eyesight for granted and yet, if you’re among the 10 million people in the U.S. with low-vision due to age-related macular degeneration (AMD), reading, writing, and other ...

Introduction: Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a leading cause of blindness with limited treatment options. Dysfunction of the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) is a unifying salient feature ...

The data was included in the paper, titled “Sozinibercept Combination Therapy for Neovascular Age-Related Macular Degeneration: Phase 2b Study Subgroup Analysis by Lesion Type.” Data from Opthea ...