News tagged with prosthetic eye
One-eyed filmmaker conceals camera in prosthetic
Mar 11, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A one-eyed documentary filmmaker is preparing to work with a video camera concealed inside a prosthetic eye, hoping to secretly record people for a project commenting on the global spread of surveillance ...
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Implanted tooth helps blind US woman recover sight
Sep 16, 2009 |
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A 60-year-old US grandmother, blind for nearly a decade, has recovered her sight after surgeons implanted a tooth in her eye as a base to hold a tiny plastic lens, her doctors said Wednesday.
Digital technology may help restore sight
Jul 13, 2006 |
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Researchers in Scotland are working on a prosthetic retina that could restore sight to blind people.
Neuroscientists Uncover Brain Region Involved in Voluntary Behavior
Nov 15, 2007 |
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Scientists at the California Institute of Technology have deciphered the activity of an area of the brain that could one day prove vital in the development of neural prostheses--within-the-brain implants that would translate ...
New study further disputes notion that amputee runners gain advantage from protheses
Nov 04, 2009 |
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A study by six researchers, including a University of Colorado at Boulder associate professor and his former doctoral student, shows that amputees who use running-specific prosthetic legs have no performance ...
Keeping hands where you can see 'em alters perception, study finds
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 09, 2008 |
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Psychologists at Washington University in St. Louis, led by Richard A. Abrams, Ph.D., professor of psychology in Arts & Sciences, have shown that to see objects better, you should take the matter into your ...
ORNL, Southern Cal set sights on preventing blindness
Mar 19, 2009 |
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Blindness in millions of people with diseases that starve eye tissue and nerves of oxygen might be averted with a procedure being developed by researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the University of Southern California ...
Researchers find new way to attack inflammation in Graves' eye disease
Nov 06, 2009 |
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A small group of patients with severe Graves' eye disease experienced rapid improvement of their symptoms — and improved vision — following treatment with the drug rituximab. Inflammation around their eyes and damage to the ...
On the cutting edge: Zigzag incision technique improves outcome of laser-assisted corneal transplantation
Nov 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- For most of the 40,000 Americans who undergo corneal transplants each year, recovery is uncomfortable and slow, sometimes taking as long as six months. Even then, clear vision may not be fully ...
Steroid injections may slow diabetes-related eye disease
Dec 15, 2009 |
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Injecting the corticosteroid triamcinolone into the eye may slow the progression of diabetic retinopathy, a complication of diabetes that can cause vision loss and blindness, according to a report in the December issue of ...
Microwave satellite imagery shows an eye developing in Mirinae
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 27, 2009 |
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Microwave satellite imagery has revealed that Tropical Storm Mirinae is strengthening enough to develop an eye, and that's what it's doing. Mirinae was formerly Tropical Depression 23W, but became a tropical ...
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