Georgia Tech researchers are developing a wearable computing system called the System for Wearable Audio Navigation (SWAN) designed to help the visually impaired, firefighters, soldiers and others navigate their way in unknown territory, particularly when vision is obstructed or impaired.

Eye diseases such as glaucoma can alter people's ability to accurately see colour and studying brain activity could be a useful way to diagnose and monitor diseases and conditions that affect colour vision pathways in the brain.

People with dry eyes often experience burning, itching or irritation that tends to worsens as the day goes by, but many remedies and treatments are available for dry eye syndrome.

The risk of the vision disorder age related macular degeneration is significantly increased by the combination of a certain genetic variation, along with inflammatory factors and smoking.

Postmenopausal hormone therapy does not appear to increase or decrease the overall risk of AMD among women.

People under 50 should have an eye exam every two to three years.

The use of statins is linked with a lower incidence of nuclear cataract, the most common type of age related cataract.

Nail polish is a frequent source of eyelid dermatitis, a skin rash described as red, scaly and itchy.

UF finding could lead to approaches to treat macular degeneration.

The machine received positive feedback from 10 visually challenged people with a range of causes for their vision loss who tested it in a pilot clinical trial.

In the developing eye, retinal neural stem cells differentiate to form the neurons of the adult eye and form the optic nerve.

in the development of the retina the role of several key genes are discovered, leading to an understanding how to prevent or cure the potentially deadly eye cancer retinoblastoma.

LASIK surgery patients tend to recover their vision faster than PRK patients, which may be part of the reason their number has grown rapidly since the late 1990s

As age increases, so does the number of women who suffer from glasses related injuries.

Transpupillary thermotherapy appears to be a successful treatment for most patients who have small choroidal melanomas: a primary cancer of the eye.