Leslie Vlonitis has a teeny, tiny telescope in her right eye. "It's a very different thing; everything looks larger so it's closer," she said. Vlonitis has macular degeneration, a condition that ...

Macular degeneration is the leading cause of vision loss in Americans over 60. In the past, there haven't been many treatment options, but that could all be changing. Macular degeneration is a chronic ...

Macular degeneration is the leading cause of blindness in people over 55. For those with end stage disease, there has been virtually no chance of seeing what is directly in front of them again.But a ...

For the past several years, the halls of the Las Vegas Convention Center have been lousy with AR/VR/XR smart glasses. While some of the biggest names in tech, like Apple and Google, have struggled to ...

To counter a leading cause of blindness in older adults, U.S. health officials have approved a first-of-its-kind technology: a tiny telescope implanted inside the eye. Illustrated at top right is the ...

Virginia Bane, an 89-year-old California-based artist, stopped painting four years ago when she lost her central vision to end-stage age-related macular degeneration. But surgeons at the University of ...

Amid the torrent of products announced earlier in January at the Consumer Electronics Show, like giant televisions and absurdly expensive GPUs, it's easy to miss less fun but potentially life-changing ...

FAR HILLS, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Samsara Vision, a company focused on bringing vision and freedom back to late-stage, age-related macular degeneration (AMD) patients through advanced visual ...

(Phys.org) —A team of engineers has designed a telescopic contact lens that can switch between normal and magnified vision by using slightly modified off-the-shelf 3D television glasses. The ...

Macular degeneration stole Jackie Carswell's central vision. "I couldn't read a recipe. I couldn't work a microwave. I couldn't hardly do anything. I asked the doctor one day if there was anything ...