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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Macular degeneration is a prevalent eye disorder that typically results in loss of vision in individuals who are 50 years of age and older. Although there isn’t a recognized cure for this ...

Further studies will be needed to understand the role of complement activation in other types of myopic retinopathy including the high prevalence peripheral retinal degeneration (Lam et al., 2005) and ...

Embryonic microglial precursors originate in peripheral mesoderm and migrate into the brain during development. However, the mechanism by which they colonize the brain is incompletely understood. The ...