News tagged with eye implant


First in New York: Bionic technology aims to give sight to woman blinded beginning at age 13

Medicine & Health / Research

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A 50-year-old New York woman who was diagnosed with a progressive blinding disease at age 13 was implanted with an experimental electronic eye implant that has partially restored her vision. A team led by Dr. Lucian V. Del ...


Researchers' vision: restoring sight through artificial retinas

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 30, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Scientists are testing artificial retinas that they hope can restore partial sight to people who've lost their vision to the most common causes of blindness.





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New surgical implant prevents total blindness

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Feb 18, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A work accident leaves a woman blind in one eye. As she copes with the loss, within months the vision in the other, previously uninjured eye begins to blur, and the eye becomes red and inflamed.


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Stimulating sight: New retinal implant developed

Technology / Engineering

created Sep 23, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (19) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Inspired by the success of cochlear implants that can restore hearing to some deaf people, researchers at MIT are working on a retinal implant that could one day help blind people regain a ...


USC researchers begin tests on next generation of retinal implant

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created Feb 16, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Patients who have gone blind are a step closer to perhaps one day regaining some of their sight. Researchers at the University of Southern California, Doheny Eye Institute, announced today the next step in their efforts to ...


Pressure sensors in the eye

Pressure sensors in the eye

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created Sep 03, 2007 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (11) | comments 0

Sensors can monitor production processes, unmask tiny cracks in aircraft hulls, and determine the amount of laundry in a washing machine. In future, they will also be used in the human body and raise the alarm ...


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Researcher develops new treatment method for canine eye diseases

Medicine & Health / Other

created Oct 28, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

An Iowa State University researcher is exploring a new method of getting medicine to the eyes of infected dogs that is more effective and reliable than using eye drops.


Task force develops new radiation guidelines for brachytherapy

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Radiation dose delivered to the prostate and nearby organs in every brachytherapy procedure should be carefully analyzed using post-implant CT or MRI and uniformly documented in every patient, according to a new guideline ...


Building Up Broken Bones

Building Up Broken Bones

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Oct 14, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Any one of the 8 million Americans who suffer bone fractures each year knows how hard it is to wait for the bones to knit, or heal. Bone healing is also important for integration of dental ...


A sound practice: Cochlear implants restore children's hearing

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created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Ava Martin seems less nervous than her parents as the three sit in an audiologist’s office at UC Irvine Medical Center a few days after Labor Day. In August, the 6-year-old had surgery to place a cochlear ...


Technology to Treat Blindness Earns Award

Technology to Treat Blindness Earns Award

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created Jul 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Research performed at Caltech as part of a collaborative U.S. Department of Energy-funded artificial-retina project designed to restore sight to the blind has received one of R&D Magazine's 2009 R&D 100 Awards. ...


ISU researcher performs first veterinary corneal implant procedure in US

ISU researcher performs first veterinary corneal implant procedure in US

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created May 12, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Sinisa Grozdanic an assistant professor of Veterinary Clinical Sciences performed the surgery that restored sight to 7-year-old Dixie, a Mountain Cur breed owned by Brett Williams of Runnells.



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