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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

On this day in history: 250 years ago, John Dalton, the first scientist to formally describe the condition now known as colour blindness, was born. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she ...

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 ...

Red and green. It’s hard to imagine two more different colors (in fact, they’re complementary, or opposites, on the color wheel). But to people with the most common type of color-blindness, they can ...

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 ...