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.

You may know someone who can’t tell the difference between specific colors — and there is a scientific reason it could be happening. The condition is known as color blindness. To share a better ...

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 ...

Women can be colorblind, but it’s much less common than in men. Red-green color blindness, the most common type, is inherited through the X chromosome. Since males have only one X, they need just one ...

Color blindness is a condition in which a person fails to recognize the colors red and green or blue and yellow. Either or all of the people having this deficiency experience the world differently ...

Q: I just met someone who claimed to be color blind to certain blues. I thought being color blind meant you couldn't see any colors? Is he color blind or not?-Jamie Q., Austin, Texas A: Your friend ...

A test conducted by an eye hospital in Dubai to verify the link between diabetes and colour blindness came up with a surprising result. “We knew that colour vision abnormality is common in diabetic ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Galvão, Jay, and Duncan-He share their experiences working with people who are color-blind and explain ...

The EnChroma® glasses, commercialized by a North American company, do not improve color vision for color blind people or correct their color blindness, and their effect is similar to that of other ...