Lens implant offers chance at beating lazy eye

By LAURAN NEERGAARD , AP Medical Writer, Medicine & Health / Diseases

Dr. Paul Dougherty inserts a rolled-up intraocular lens implant through a tiny incision in the eye of Megan Garvin at his office in Los Angeles, Wednesday, July 30, 2008. A few air bubbles, later removed, are visible. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)

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(AP) -- Dr. Paul Dougherty delicately slipped a tiny lens inside the right eye of 7-year-old Megan Garvin - a last-ditch shot at saving her sight in that eye. The California girl last week became one of a small number of U.S. children to try an experimental surgery to prevent virtual blindness from lazy eye diagnosed too late, or too severe, for standard treatment.

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