Night blindness is caused by vitamin A deficiency, congenital mutations, and other eye diseases. Learn about symptoms, causes ...

Congenital stationary night blindness can be inherited according to all Mendelian inheritance patterns. Two X-linked and two autosomal dominant genes have been cloned ( Table 5).

Jessica Chaikof says research into gene therapies could someday save her eyesight. But she worries cuts to federal research funding could mean that therapy won't be ready in time.

Diseases that could be included in the EOCRDs are Leber congenital amaurosis, achromatopsia, congenital stationary night blindness, X-linked juvenile retinoschisis, Goldmann–Favre disease and other ...

Researchers conducted a retrospective study to examine whether the cause of pulmonary hypoplasia influenced lung growth trajectories by assessing pulmonary function in children aged 8 to 13 years born ...

Congenital (Inherited) Night Blindness: X-linked congenital stationary night blindness (CSNB): This is a genetic condition where the rods in the retina don't work as they should, leading to night ...

Since the approval of the first-ever gene therapy for blindness, ... All the participants of the trial had a condition called Leber congenital amaurosis type 4 (LCA4), which is a severe, inherited eye ...

On Friday, the EMA's safety committee stated that semaglutide-the active ingredient in Ozempic, Wegovy, and Rybelsus-has been linked to non-arteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (NAION), a ...

Glaucoma is a vision problem that begins without pain and ends in blindness. Don’t wait for symptoms and check out these tips to catch it before it’s too late.

A new twin study published in Translational Psychiatry suggests that the sensory sensitivities often seen in autistic individuals may not be caused by autism itself. Instead, these sensory traits ...

U.S. aid cuts could jeopardize the supply of donated drugs that are hailed for their effectiveness in combating neglected diseases like river blindness, schistosomiasis and trachoma.