Blindness

Spooky-sounding new research had monkeys seeing shapes that weren’t real, thanks to brain implants. The technology co…

A 4-year-old Iowa girl’s tragic bout with the flu should remind everyone why getting vaccinated is so important. Her…

The Supreme Court declined to give Domino’s Pizza Inc. an out from a lawsuit arguing that its website is…

A new study out Monday suggests that losing your sight early in life can lead to subtle alterations in the brain…

An 80-year-old woman from the United Kingdom is the first patient to undergo gene therapy to treat age-related…

Today, many people who are blind or have low vision must cobble together different hardware and software just to use…

On Tuesday, a 13-year-old boy from New Jersey was at the center of medical history as he became the first person in…

British doctors have taken a huge step towards curing a common form of age-related chronic eye condition.

In a major breakthrough, a gene therapy for a rare inherited form of blindness received approval from the Food and…

It’s often said that the loss of one sense improves the others. New research shows the dramatic extent to which this…

An unproven stem cell therapy conducted by a Florida clinic has blinded three patients in an apparent clinical trial…

Dan Mancia’s vision started to fade when he was thirteen. Now, he only has a very small amount of peripheral vision…

DeepMind made a name for itself by building a computer that beat the world champion at Go (and freaked everyone out)…

Two poor souls suffered through MRIs, heart scans, and other medical tests to figure out what was causing them to go…

Scientists have used stem cells to cure blindness in rabbits—which could be incredible news for visually impaired…

You may consider your eyes a priceless commodity, but for Mexican cavefish, they were a burdensome expense. In a…

Echolocation isn’t just for bats and dolphins—people can do it, too. Some blind people have learned to use…

Joshua Loevy is an attorney in Kansas City, MO, who happens to be blind. For years, people have compared him to…

What does space feel like? I'm not talking about space itself—but rather the images we see in a telescope. Could you…

For people going blind from retinal degeneration, there are almost no therapies. Their vision dims and they lose…