BETHESDA, Md. — Low vision or blindness currently affects one in 28 Americans older than 40 -- for a total of 3.3 million -- and the figure is projected to escalate to 5.5 million by 2020, according ...

A proposal to close the National Eye Institute (NEI) and consolidate it with two other arms of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has brought together leaders from three vision research ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Over the next 5 years, the National Eye Institute is aiming to eliminate vision loss and improve quality of life ...

A compact fiber-optic probe developed for the space program has now proven valuable for patients in the clinic as the first non-invasive early detection device for cataracts, the leading cause of ...

More than 2.2 billion people in the world are visually impaired, while at least half of these cases—1 billion— could have been prevented or have yet to be addressed. In addition, blindness is expected ...

A compact fiber-optic probe developed for the space program has now proven valuable for patients in the clinic as the first non-invasive early detection device for cataracts, the leading cause of ...