Science is giving sight, sound, and speech a second chance. How might it change the way we age?

For the first time, researchers have restored some vision to people with a common type of eye disease by using a prosthetic retinal implant. If approved for broader use in the future, the treatment ...

For more than a century, neuroscience textbooks have treated damaged neurons in the adult central nervous system as a dead end, especially in the delicate circuitry that carries visual information ...

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is an untreatable vision loss problem impacting those over 50. The disease starts as a thinning of the macula (the part of the retina responsible for detailed ...

Amblyopia, often called lazy eye, develops when the brain fails to receive balanced input from both eyes early in life. One eye becomes dominant, while the other lags behind. Standard care relies on ...

Nicki Guy, 47, says a "phenomenal" bout of pioneering treatment has restored her vision after suffering from hypotony - or ...

A Connecticut boy is among four children all born with severe childhood blindness who gained “life-changing improvements” to their vision after an experimental trial of gene therapy. Jace was just ...

Dry eye syndrome can cause several side effects. Some of these can affect your vision. It’s important to seek treatment before the condition becomes severe, at which point it can cause permanent ...