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.

Daltonism is a specific type of red-green color vision deficiency, also known as color blindness. People with red-green color vision deficiency may confuse colors that contain red or green elements.

Color blindness, more appropriately called color vision deficiency, is a condition in which certain colors cannot be distinguished, and is most commonly due to an inherited condition. Severity of the ...

A RELATIVELY large number of color-vision abnormalities have recently been observed in alcoholic patients with cirrhosis, and the suggestion has been advanced that the X-linked genes causing color ...

Although Detroit is full of color, not everyone can see it. A photo gallery, created by a contact lens retailer, portrays Detroit as it's seen by people living with color blindness. The gallery was ...

While there already are glasses that help compensate for red-green color blindness, the lenses often can't be shaped to users' prescriptions. That's why scientists are now developing a new type of ...

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 ...