Scientists discover gene responsible for rare, inherited eye disease

Ophthalmic images from five of the patients in the study demonstrate significant variability in the forms of retinal dystrophy. Credit: Bin Guan, Ph.D. Scientists at the National Institutes of Health

Routine eye exams reveal stage 2 hypertension in half of diabetes patients

Diabetes opens people to other noncommunicable diseases like obesity, retinopathy and cardiovascular diseases like heart attacks and hypertension. A recent study by researchers at the University of Virginia School of

Reducing inflammation may protect against early age-related macular degeneration-like vision loss

University of Minnesota Medical School researchers have shown that reducing chronic inflammation can significantly protect against age-related macular degeneration (AMD)-like pathology in preclinical models. The findings were recently published in