The 2024 American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) Preferred Practice Patterns provide guidance for physicians about best practices in the treatment of age-related macular degeneration (AMD). The ...

Age-related macular degeneration is the leading cause of vision loss in those who are age 50 or older. In fact, almost 20 million people in the U.S. have some type of age-related macular degeneration, ...

This story is part of a series on the current progression in Regenerative Medicine. This piece is part of a series dedicated to the eye and improvements in restoring vision. In 1999, I defined ...

Dear Carol: My dad is 86 and quite healthy other than his eyes. Recently, he developed the wet form of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and needs to get regular injections in his eyes to slow ...

Wet age-related macular degeneration causes abnormal blood vessels to leak fluid under the retina, damaging central vision. While there's no cure, treatments can slow progression and help preserve ...

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 ...

Coave Therapeutics has announced its lead gene therapy program, CoTx-101, for the treatment of retinal vascular diseases, ...

Geographic atrophy (GA) is a chronic, progressive degeneration of the macula that can occur in some people with dry macular degeneration. GA is a late, or advanced, stage of the disease. The people ...

Neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD) and diabetic macular edema (DME) can cause substantial disease burden for patients. Several organizations have published clinical guidelines on ...

In a recent study, Moran Eye Center's Dr. Mary Elizabeth Hartnett looks for a way to fix or maintain the retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) barrier. And she found it in the protein RAP1A. Her research, ...

It’s common knowledge that our eyesight gets poorer as we age. How do we know when it’s bad eyesight or something deeper that ...