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Electronic Eye Implant Restored Vision in Patients With Age-Related Macular Degeneration
Today, in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers announced that they restored some vision to elderly patients with ...
Several dozen patients regained some of their vision thanks to an implant inside their eye paired with a set of smart glasses ...
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Eye implant and high-tech glasses restore vision lost to age
Age-related macular degeneration is a common cause of vision loss, with existing treatments only able to slow its progression ...
Geographic atrophy due to age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of irreversible blindness and affects more than 5 million persons worldwide. No therapies to restore vision in ...
A groundbreaking European trial has shown that a new electronic eye implant, paired with augmented-reality glasses, can restore reading vision to patients blinded by geographic atrophy from dry ...
The device could help a million people with a severe form of macular degeneration to be able to see enough to read.
Scientists have developed a tiny photovoltaic micro-chip, no larger than a grain of rice, that can be implanted under the ...
After being treated with an electronic eye implant paired with augmented-reality glasses, people with sight loss have ...
Brent Chapman can see again after doctors pulled out one of his teeth, flattened it, drilled a hole in it, placed a lens inside and implanted the tooth in one of his eyes. It seems bizarre, but the ...
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