'Bionic' eye implants look ahead
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A retinal implant that could help restore the sight of millions of blind people could be available in two years.
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Effective way to correct nearsightedness, study finds    HealthDayNews -- Implantable contact lenses are a safe and effective way to correct moderate to high nearsightedness, says a study in the September issue of Ophthalmology.    The research was funded by STAAR Surgical of Monrovia, Calif., which has applied for U.S...
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In the 1970s TV show "The Six Million Dollar Man," the strapping young astronaut got a bionic eye. A U.S. company had hoped that next year that might be your grandmother. Not so fast, a federal advisory panel said Friday.
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The prosthetics of the future are more than physical attachments, they're intertwined with the human mind. They communicate with muscles, nerves and even neurons. And some of them are available today. By Rachel Metz. Part one in a four-part series.
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Patients whose eyes have been damaged by injuries or disease could have their eyesight restored in a new technique that uses membrane from the mouth to restore corneas, Japanese researchers have announced.
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An implantable contact lens that corrects vision in nearsighted patients is safe and does not have some of the side-effects of laser surgery, a company that manufactures the devices said on Wednesday.
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Scientists believe they have found a novel function for the tiny involuntary movements our eyes make all the time.
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New research suggests that rigid gas permeable contact lenses may help slow the progression of nearsightedness, or myopia, in young children.
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SAN FRANCISCO  - A new FDA-approved device that uses light stimulation enlarges the visual field of patients who are left with vision impairments after stroke, researchers announced here at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference 2007.
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U.S. regulators on Monday approved  an implantable contact lens that corrects nearsightedness and  offers an alternative to laser surgery.
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An &quot;electronic eye&quot; that can be fitted to a pair of glasses could help the blind cross roads more safely, scientists said on Friday.
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Freeze-dried implants are being developed which may help repair injured and difficult-to-treat tendons.
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Corporate researchers working  outside controversial federal restraints said on Thursday they  had engineered human stem cells that they believe could be used  to repair eyes.
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A new study has revealed that Implantable contact lenses (ICL) are safe, effective and have predictable results for correcting myopia or nearsightedness.
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A genetic switch that gives tadpoles three eyes could allow stem-cell scientists to eventually grow human eyeballs or at least create replacement parts needed for repair jobs.
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(National-NBC) Sept. 3, 2004 - An experimental implantable contact lens is showing promise in helping nearsighted people see without glasses.
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Japanese researchers say they have turned cells from the mouth into eye cells that have successfully been implanted in four patients to repair damage to the delicate outer layer of the cornea.