Better Treatment Sought For Blinding Traumatic Optic Nerve Damage

Scientists want to protect the optic nerve when the eye takes a blow on the battlefield or in a car wreck. It's called traumatic optic nerve damage when the fragile, spaghetti-sized nerve tethered to the back of the eye gets rattled, resulting in swelling and inflammation that can destroy its major component - the retinal ganglion nerves - causing vision loss and blindness...