With all the technological advancements in the world, we have solutions for nearly every problem. There has been a major medical breakthrough in reshaping the future of blindness treatment.

A wireless bionic eye implant, smaller than a grain of rice, has restored enough vision to legally blind patients for them to read letters and recognize faces again. The implant, called the PRIMA ...

If you've delved into the worlds of "Star Trek," "The Terminator" or William Gibson's cyberpunk novel "Neuromancer," you'll ...

BROOKPARK, Ohio -- Steve McMillin was a millright at the Ford plant in Brookpark, Ohio. After his diagnosis, he knew his vision would slowly slip away. At 46, he could no longer drive and switched to ...

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Once doomed to a life of darkness, dozens of people stricken by retinal diseases are rediscovering a world of light as scientists push ahead on cures for blindness. Already, bionic retinas enable ...

Researchers from three institutions, including UC Santa Barbara, have demonstrated that artificial intelligence has the potential to make future visual prostheses, like a bionic eye, more precise, ...

For decades, treatments for macular degeneration have focused on slowing, not restoring vision loss. A new retinal implant is flipping that script, turning patients with geographic atrophy into ...

Ten out of 11 kids who received gene therapy for a rare variant of congenital deafness had significant improvements when tested one year after the surgery, reported doctors involved in the study. The ...