Without a healthy macula, people cannot read a newspaper, recognize a friend, thread a needle, watch TV, safely negotiate stairs or see much of anything at all.
That disease is known as age-related macular degeneration, in which the eye's macula, a remarkably sensitive structure in the middle of the retina, gradually loses its ability to .
An electron micrograph of a human retina shows the crater-like macula, with the fovea at its center.
Macular Degeneration: Implantable Telescope Improves Vision Macular degeneration is the leading cause of severe vision loss in Americans 60 and older. Once it progresses there aren't many treatment options, but now there is a high-tech way that doctors are using to help patients see better.
June 16, 2013 - KFSN-TV Fresno