What Is Retinitis Pigmentosa? Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is a term for a group of eye diseases that can lead to loss of sight. What they have in common are specific changes your doctor sees when they ...

Scientists believe they have discovered a special antibody which may lead to a treatment for Retinitis Pigmentosa, a condition that causes loss of central vision, as well as night and color vision. A ...

Emotional and social support for patients with retinitis pigmentosa could reduce the incidence of depressive disorder in this demographic. RP is a rare disorder affecting between 1 in 3000 and 1 in ...

Two new compounds may be able to treat retinitis pigmentosa, a group of inherited eye diseases that cause blindness. The compounds were identified using a virtual screening approach. Two new compounds ...

Inherited eye disorders such as retinitis pigmentosa (RP) leave millions grappling with progressive vision loss. At the heart ...

Here’s what to know about the irreversible eye disease at the center of the new National Geographic documentary Blink. Retinitis pigmentosa is a rare visual disorder that affects a layer of tissue in ...

A multidisciplinary team of researchers from the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT-Italian Institute of Technology) and ...

Treatment with bioavailable small-molecule pharmacochaperones targeting the visual receptor rhodopsin offers a promising approach to prevent retinal photoreceptor degeneration caused by inherited ...