LHON is a rare mitochondrial disease that affects around two in 100,000 people across Europe, and usually leaves sufferers registered blind within months of the first symptoms 1. Onset is ...

describing LHON as “like having a flashlight in the centre of your vision all the time, night and day”. The rare disorder, which leaves 80% of patients legally blind within one year ...

Beyer is legally blind. Two years ago, he was diagnosed with Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy, also known as (LHON). A rare genetic disease that causes vision loss. “She’s like, no ...

He graduated as the first blind midshipman. Unfortunately ... “We hope that Alberto’s courageous fight and story brings light to LHON, a devastating condition that affects many young ...