The most common types of color blindness, or color vision deficiency, are genetic. However, other types may develop due to injuries, eye diseases, health problems, and side effects of treatment.

Color blindness, or color deficiency, causes difficulty telling different colors apart and may affect the shades and brightness of colors. Color deficiency can occur in females but is much less common ...

Color blindness, also known as color vision deficiency, is a condition where someone's ability to see colors is different from what most people experience. Color filters: Special glasses and contact ...

SHREVEPORT, La. -- Do you see the world in different colors? What about no colors at all? The number of people with color blindness, or what is actually color deficiency, are low. But what does it ...

Recently, my Ohio State University Extension colleague Katie Schlagheck shared her family’s journey with color blindness in an article for the OSU Extension Live Healthy Live Well Blog at ...

Color vision deficiency (CVD) encompasses a spectrum of inherited and acquired conditions affecting the ability to discriminate colours, most notably in the red-green domain. Among these, anomalous ...

Research shows people with color blindness face higher bladder cancer mortality because early blood-in-urine warning signs may go unnoticed.

People with bladder cancer who are also colour blind may have a lower chance of survival than those with normal colour vision, according to research published in Nature Health. The study suggests that ...

Out of sight, out of mind. A new study suggests a common eye condition could be quietly masking one of the only early warning ...

Researchers have taken a look at survival rates of cancer patients who have color vision deficiency (CVD), finding that ...

Millions globally live with colour blindness, often unaware of their condition. An optometrist shares a quick, one-minute test using Ishihara plates to help identify colour vision deficiency, which ...