Learning to read again Study participant Sheila Irvine, a patient at Moorfields Eye Hospital, training with the PRIMA device. (Courtesy: Moorfields Eye Hospital) A tiny wireless implant inserted under ...

Scientists have used an eye implant to improve the vision of dozens of people left functionally blind by age-related macular degeneration (AMD). The implant, which measures 2 millimetres by 2 ...

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) causes progressive vision loss in many elderly people, and no treatment is available for the so-called atrophic form of the disease. A neurostimulation system ...

Those treated with the device could also read, on average, five lines of a vision chart; some participants could not even see the chart before their surgery. The trial, with 38 patients in 17 hospital ...

Vision loss exists on a wide spectrum, and low vision is very different from total blindness.