Gary Ruot was the picture of health. A 17-year-old baseball player living in Florida. He had just started to drive, when just a few months later, his vision started to fade. First in his right eye.

Shares of Krystal Biotech KRYS gained 3.9% yesterday after the company announced that it had dosed the first patient in a phase I/II study evaluating its eye drop KB801 for the treatment of ...

Shares of Krystal Biotech KRYS gained 4.2% on Tuesday after the company announced that it has dosed the first patient in the late-stage study evaluating its investigational candidate, KB803, for the ...

Duke Eye Center has become the first academic medical center in the country to implant a new cell-based gene therapy for a rare eye disease called MacTel. This procedure offers hope to patients like ...

Scientists at Oregon Health & Science University's Casey Eye Institute and Baylor College of Medicine's Cullen Eye Institute published findings from a two-year Phase I clinical trial in the journal ...

For women with a rare form of blindness, their hormones may make the disease worse, new research from UT Southwestern Medical Center suggests. In a study published in the journal Science Advances, ...

A young man recently experienced sudden vision loss when he was lifting heavy weights at the gym. Later, the doctors diagnosed him with having a rare known eye condition, Valsalva retinopathy, an ...

A new study demonstrates the effectiveness of a widely-used eye injection to manage the previously untreatable rare condition, hypotony, in a project by clinical researchers at UCL and Moorfields Eye ...

Gary Ruot was the picture of health. A 17-year-old baseball player living in Florida. He had just started to drive, when just a few months later, his vision started to fade. First in his right eye.