Peripheral vision is the ability to see through the sides or out of the corners of the eyes, which is used during most daily activities. Peripheral vision may be lost due to various reasons, typically ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Globally, more than five million people are affected by age-related macular degeneration, which can make reading, driving, and the recognition of faces impossible. A new wireless retinal implant has ...

Patients with vision loss caused by a common but untreatable condition are able to read again thanks to a groundbreaking eye implant. The Prima device is an electronic eye implant which measures just ...

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 ...