Glaucoma creeps in without pain or obvious symptoms, slowly damaging your optic nerve. Regular eye exams and early detection ...

What Is Optic Nerve Drusen? Optic nerve drusen is a rare eye condition that affects between 3 and 24 people out of every 1,000 in the population. It’s difficult to estimate exactly how common this ...

Treatment for optic nerve cupping takes many different forms depending on the severity of the disease and the factors that originally caused the optic nerve damage. Research will lead to future ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Horizon Therapeutics recently announced new MRI imaging data from a phase 3 clinical trial, which demonstrated ...

Research suggests the possibility of restoring at least some visual function in people blinded by optic nerve damage from glaucoma, estimated to affect more than 4 million Americans, or from trauma.

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune demyelinating disease of the central nervous system that commonly causes optic neuritis. While people with MS can initially recover from optic neuritis, over ...

St. Louis, Feb. 1, 2004 -- Young people with eye diseases that damage the inner part of the retina and optic nerve are significantly more likely to have sleep disorders than those with other types of ...

Researchers at Children's Hospital Boston have discovered a naturally occurring, previously unrecognized growth factor that stimulates regeneration in injured optic nerves -- raising the possibility ...