Around a third of people over the age of 80 suffer from age-related macular degeneration (AMD), with an estimated 20 million ...
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Electronic Eye Implant Restored Vision in Patients With Age-Related Macular Degeneration
Today, in the New England Journal of Medicin e, researchers announced that they restored some vision to elderly patients with ...
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GLP-1 Weight Loss Drugs Tied to Lower Risk of Early Macular Degeneration
Preliminary studies suggest GLP-1s may offer long-term protection against the eye disease AMD for people without diabetes.
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Age-related macular degeneration: Robot delivers ultra-precision injections with rapid setup times
Many surgeons admit that medical robots can now operate with greater precision than human specialists. However, the complex ...
It’s common to have changes in your vision as you age, and the risk of developing eye disease unfortunately also increases as ...
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Wireless retinal implant restores sight in patients blinded by advanced macular degeneration
A new trial shows that a wireless subretinal implant, the PRIMA system, restored central vision in patients with geographic ...
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New chip restores reading ability for macular degeneration patients
A tiny wireless chip implanted in the back of the eye and a pair of high-tech glasses have partially restored vision to ...
Despite the recent attention to the potential of developing and using gene therapy to treat several diseases, the therapy was ...
Clinical trials for a laser treatment targeting this common eye disease will begin in Finland next spring, and researchers hope it could become available to patients within three years. About one in ...
A wireless eye implant developed at Stanford Medicine has restored reading ability to people with advanced macular ...
Gradual vision loss isn’t inevitable with age. Follow these 6 expert-backed lifestyle tips to protect your eyes from glaucoma and macular degeneration. (Image: Pexels) There’s something terrifying ...
The prosthesis used is the Prima device, based on Stanford technology developed at the lab of Daniel Palanker. Early clinical development of Prima was undertaken by Paris-based Pixium Vision, which ...
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