(Reuters Health) - Older white people with very impaired eyesight are more likely to use low-vision devices that may improve independence, compared to elderly people in other racial and ethnic groups, ...

These tools and tips can help make life easier when you're having trouble seeing Using a handheld magnifier with a light can make it easier to read printed pages. By Kevin Loria Vision problems ...

If you have geographic atrophy (GA), what likely started out as tiny specks in your central vision may have grown to noticeable blind spots in both eyes that make it difficult to see directly in front ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- New and innovative technology is aimed at helping the visually impaired. Iris Vision is a wearable device that allows those with low vision to see the world like they've never seen it ...

Dick Bramer likes to watch birds flock outside the window of his home in Scandia. But for two years he couldn't see them well enough to identify the various species. "I've got bird feeders and stuff ...

In her childhood bedroom, Maxine Collard had a PC connected to a cathode-ray tube monitor so massive it bowed her desk into a smile that grew deeper every year. Collard has oculocutaneous albinism, ...

In about a month, a solar eclipse will darken much of the United States as the moon passes in front of the sun. The last big one in North America was in 2017, and it was Harvard astronomer Allyson ...

Barclays Center in Brooklyn is abuzz as the Brooklyn Nets’s Jalen Wilson catches the ball, readies himself, and releases a contested three. The ball arcs high above the Knicks defender’s outstretched ...

Optometrist Chris Palmer prescribes devices that can help improve people’s vision when other glasses can’t. Wittayayut Seethong/Dreamstime/TNS Dick Bramer, 76, likes to watch birds flock outside the ...