Low Vision Blog

I am a 63 year old criminal defense lawyer who has low vision due to diabetic retinopathy.  I have no vision in my left eye and on a good day the vision in my right eye is 20/400. Approximately seven years ago I awoke and I could not see out of my left eye.  Incredibly, […]

Cataracts: What They Are and How to Treat Them   Cataracts affect more than fifty percent of Americans over the age of 65. Age related blindness is commonly attributed to the clouding of the lens.  The way your eyes function is through a lens which acts as a “camera” and then captures an image in […]

Advanced aged related macular degeneration (AMD) is the last stage of macular degeneration. What does that mean? It means that there is no longer any treatment that can correct or cure one’s vision loss. Vision loss at this stage is a severe loss of straight ahead vision in both eyes. A black or gray spot, […]

A recent reader sent me a question asking, “Can you provide some information on e book readers – such as Kindle readers, magnification, contrast and which works best for those with age related macular degeneration? Also what are the costs of book downloads? “ E book readers have made reading possible for those with age […]

For all of you who missed the webinar, here is a video of the presentation: http://youtu.be/s3fHYR2Z50M The slides for the presentation are here: http://www.slideshare.net/enhancedvision/enhanced-vision-webinar-coping-with-visual-impairment “Dr. Kevin Huff, OD speaks on “Coping with Visual Impairment”, emotions surrounding vision loss and what’s new in low vision technology. Dr. Kevin Huff practices low vision optometry at the Viewfinder […]

For all of you who missed the webinar, here is a video of the presentation: http://youtu.be/Wkxme5JKdSQ “Make it Happen with Low Vision Technology- Practical Applications for Daily Living” will be presented by Kathy Foster and Janet Bernhardt CLVT, TVI. Kathy and Janet are co-owners of Low Vision, Etc., located in Monroe, Louisiana. Low Vision, Etc., […]

For those of you who are new to the vision world of macular degeneration, the two most common types of age related macular degeneration (AMD)  are dry AMD and wet AMD. The reason for the use of the words “dry” and “wet”  is that in the wet form, tiny capillaries start growing under the macula, […]

Did you know that our eyes have internal “sunglasses?”  Known as the macular pigment (MP), this yellow pigmented spot is found in the center of the retina known as the macula.  Made up of two carotenoids, lutein and zeaxanthin, the MP plays a critical role in protecting the macula from harmful blue light and in […]

Perhaps you or someone close to you has recently received a diagnosis of age related macular degeneration (AMD).  Depending on the eye doctor, an explanation of this retinal disease was very brief or perhaps the diagnosis was so overwhelming it was difficult to hear anything else that was said. I remember when my father-in-law was […]

Macular degeneration and stem cell research is in its infancy – as is most stem cell research. However, there has been some progress to report in humans .  And even though the progress is quite small, it is still ground breaking. A  bio-tech company called Advanced Cell Technology (ACT) has its principal laboratory and GMP […]