NEI Research News

A National Institutes of Health (NIH) study has found that although 94 percent of Americans aged 12 and older have good vision, the remaining six percent, or 14 million, are visually impaired. Of these, more than 11 million have uncorrected visual..

A new study projects that nearly half of all adult Hispanic/Latino individuals in the United States with diabetes have some type of diabetic retinopathy, a degenerative disease affecting vision.

The National Eye Institute reported today that current treatments for a common, sight-threatening complication of diabetes have proved 95 percent effective in maintaining vision, but 8,000 still go blind each year from this disease.

New findings from a nationwide clinical trial supported by theNational Eye Institute (NEI) provide further evidence that laser treatment is highly effective in preventing visual loss from diabetic eye disease.

New evidence from a nationwide study shows that treatment for some powerful beams of light can substantially reduce the risk of blindness for some people with severe eye disease caused by diabetes.