Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a leading cause of irreversible central vision loss and blindness in elderly people in the developed world. The two main vision threating subtypes are geographic atrophy (GA) and ...

Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is the most common form of vasculitis in people over 50 years of age. It is characterized by inflammation of the medium and large arteries of the head and neck. When the ophthalmic artery is ...

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are master gene regulators that have been widely implicated in many biological processes as well as pathogenesis of many diseases in the eye. The identification of miRNAs that are altered in human diseases ...

Vision impairment (VI) and blindness affect 440 million people worldwide. As most cases can be avoided through evidence-based eye health care interventions, the elimination of avoidable VI and blindness is a global health ...

To study diseases affecting the retina, we rely on appropriate models to investigate causes of degenerative onset and progression. Human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs), and in particular patient-specific induced pluripotent ...

Neuro-ophthalmology is a medical discipline focusing on diseases of the central nervous system that may affect the visual sensory or motor systems or pupillary reflexes. Neuro-ophthalmologists are often part of the academic ...

Hypothesis 1: In people who develop a choroidal neovascular membrane (CNVM) secondary to Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD), presenting visual acuity varies. Eyes with worse visual acuities at presentation have worse ...

Depression is exceedingly prevalent in people with vision impairment (VI), which further exacerbates vision-related functioning, disability and quality of life when left untreated.1-5 Up to 43% of people with VI experience ...

Myopia is a refractive error characterized by an abnormal increase in eye length. There has been a rapid increase in the prevalence of myopia in the world and concomitant with this, are the increased number of individuals ...

Using a mixed method approach, this research was conducted in three phases. In Phase 1, a situation analysis was conducted through a survey and interviews with ophthalmologists, health administrators, mid-level eye care ...