An elderly American man has become completely blind after he was prescribed to take Ozempic to manage his type 2 diabetes.

Progressive encephalopathy with edema, hypsarrhythmia, and optic nerve atrophy (PEHO) syndrome is a rare, apparently autosomal recessive condition in which characteristic dysmorphic features are ...

The hypothesis that it disrupts the function of retinal ganglion cell axons by increasing mechanical forces on the lamina cribrosa of the optic nerve head has received considerable experimental ...

4 Thus, without measurement of core body temperature, determining whether abnormal VEPs result from demyelination of the optic nerve or from other concomitant physiological factors is not possible ...

Optic nerve atrophy is damage to the optic nerve. Causes include poor blood flow to the eye, disease, trauma, or exposure to toxic substances.Ophthalmologist Raj Pathmaraj explains more about this.

Advancium Health Network, a public charity dedicated to advancing therapies for rare diseases, has awarded two major grants ...