Dear Doctors: What happens in macular degeneration? My eye doctor found something called drusen in my eye, and now I’m supposed to take these special vitamins. He didn’t say anything about macular ...

Q: What happens in macular degeneration? My eye doctor found something called drusen in my eye, and now I'm supposed to take these special vitamins. He didn't say anything about macular degeneration, ...

Clinical trials for a laser treatment targeting this common eye disease will begin in Finland next spring, and researchers hope it could become available to patients within three years. About one in ...

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) has three stages: early, intermediate, and late stage. Vision loss usually happens in the last stage of AMD. However, not everyone with AMD progresses through ...

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Both environmental factors (smoking, poor nutrition, etc.) and genetic factors contribute to the progression of AMD. In patients with bilateral AMD, only 54% were found to have symmetric disease, ...

As many as 15 million people in the United States have some form of age-related macular degeneration, a leading cause of vision loss among people 50 and older. Nine out of 10 of them have the dry form ...

If you’re over the age of 60, you may have noticed changes in your vision as you’ve gotten older. You might wonder which vision problems are normal, though, and which ones signify that you’re ...

Dear Doctors: What happens in macular degeneration? My eye doctor found something called drusen in my eye, and now I’m supposed to take these special vitamins. He didn’t say anything about macular ...

Dear Doctors: What happens in macular degeneration? My eye doctor found something called drusen in my eye, and now I’m supposed to take these special vitamins. He didn’t say anything about macular ...