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, or color vision deficiency, causes a person to see colors differently from most other people. There are several types of color blindness. Color vision deficiency or loss has multiple ...

Deuteranopia is a type of color blindness that affects shades of green. A person may be unable to see greens or distinguish between green and other colors. Color vision deficiencies, also called color ...

An estimated 300 million people worldwide are color-blind. This typically means they can't distinguish certain shades of color, they struggle to tell how bright colors are or, more rarely, they can't ...

To understand what causes color blindness, you need to be cool with cones and what they do. No, not ice cream cones! We're talking about the cones in your eyes. At the very back of your eye is the ...

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 ...