On November 7, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled that, in some cases, night blindness may be considered a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).

Scientists have successfully restored dim-light vision to dogs with an inherited disorder that causes night blindness, a major step toward using the same gene therapy to help people with similar ...

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A gene that could be responsible for some cases of human night blindness has been discovered by researchers. Leber's congenital amaurosis (LCA) is a group of hereditary retinal diseases that result in ...

We report a case of acquired night blindness in a developed country (Spain) without risk factors for nutritional deficiency disease or family history of hereditary retinal disease. A 76-year-old woman ...

A devastating diagnosis for a young child is every parent’s worst nightmare. All too often there’s nothing that can be done, but occasionally there’s a window of opportunity to make things better for ...

We all have more trouble seeing when the lights go out, which means that night blindness affects everyone to some degree, because it usually takes a moment for the retina to adjust to changes in light ...

Working in collaboration with Japanese scientists, researchers have for the first time found a form of congenital night blindness in dogs. Their discovery and subsequent hunt for the genetic mutation ...