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 ...

A mother who was unable to see after giving birth to her first child has had her sight restored following a plasma donation.

New mother Jessica Kent-Hazledine said she feared “the worst” when her vision started to go in April last year, but now her sight is “so much better” ...

Nick Kharufeh said he never thought he would see out of his left eye again after suffering an injury several years ago. Now, he is advocating for the procedure that restored his vision. The accident ...

OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — An Oklahoma woman was living with a brain tumor, and she had no idea. In a quiet irony only God could script, Indira [Indy] Stone’s missionary journey began when she was 19 ...

O. Rose Broderick reports on the health policies and technologies that govern people with disabilities’ lives. Before coming to STAT, she worked at WNYC’s Radiolab and Scientific American, and her ...

VANCOUVER, Canada (WABC) -- After going blind nearly 21 years ago, Brent Chapman has had some of his vision restored, thanks to an extraordinary medical procedure known as "tooth-in-eye" surgery in ...

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 ...

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 ...