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Record producer Robin Millar started losing his sight in the mid 1980s as a result of retinitis pigmentosa.

TWO blind men have regained partial sight for the first time in more than 20 years after becoming the first in Britain to be fitted with a “bionic eye”.

A blind man in Britain has had a bionic eye implant that gives him rudimentary vision. Chris James, who had been totally blind for more than 20 years, is the first British patient to be fitted with a digital chip similar to those used in mobile phone cameras

Visionary: Blind patients can see shapes and one even began dreaming in colour after receiving pioneering microchip eye implants. Picture: AFP Source: AFP THE first UK trials of an electronic eye implant to restore sight to the blind have “exceeded expectations”. Eye experts developing the pioneering new technology said the first group of British patients to receive the electronic microchips were regaining “useful vision” just weeks after undergoing surgery

May 4, 2012 Two blind men have received sight for the first time in years due to new advances in medical science. The Oxford Eye Hospital and Kings College Hospital in London have been carrying out a clinical trial that helps restore sight to the blind, at least partially, through eye implants. Chris James and Robin Millar lost their vision due to a condition known as retinitis pigmentosa, which is when the photoreceptor cells at the back of the eye eventually cease to function

Public release date: 30-Apr-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ] Contact: Jean Horrigan jh@nei.nih.gov 301-496-5248 NIH/National Eye Institute At two years, Avastin (bevacizumab) and Lucentis (ranibizumab injection), two widely used drugs to treat age-related macular degeneration (AMD), improve vision when administered monthly or on an as needed basis, although greater improvements in vision were seen with monthly administration for this common, debilitating eye disease, according to researchers supported by the National Institutes of Health.

23 April 2012 Last updated at 20:32 ET By Branwen Jeffreys Health correspondent, BBC News The pharmaceutical company Novartis is challenging the use of a cheaper alternative to its drug Lucentis for a common cause of loss of vision. The NHS in four areas in the south of England agreed last year that a drug called Avastin could be prescribed for the condition wet AMD

20-04-2012 20:11 Utilizing EyeSight makes one thing especially clear: old, single function, hand-held magnifiers and CCTV’s are finally a thing of the past! EyeSight by SightTech was developed for users with visual impairments to be the most intuitive magnification and color enhancement tool in iOS history. Designed to utilize the newest iPad’s technology, EyeSight allows anyone to magnify any printed material up to 12X, simply by using a few hand gestures with your iOS 5 device. In addition to magnification, you can toggle through 6 distinct color-contrast combinations to suit your individal preferences and visual enhancement needs.

Doctors are battling to save the sight of a senior British diplomat mugged while walking through a cemetery.

There have been numerous times when his guide dog likely saved Gresham resident Shannon Gerdts life. Take the time he and Disney were on a walk when the now-retired guide dog stopped abruptly

FRIDAY, April 20 (HealthDay News) — Though glaucoma has been nicknamed the silent thief of sight, eye experts now say it generally doesn't have to be that way.

KENTArchna Johar, M.D., of Danbury Eye will present Good Eye Health 101: Carrots and Beyond, a discussion of the risks to eye health and diseases that threaten sight, Friday, April 27, at 12:45 p.m. at the Kent Senior Center, Swifts Lane

Advances | More Science See Inside Gene therapy restores human sight By Ferris Jabr | April 1, 2012 Image: Getty Images After several years of setbacks, gene therapy is once again yielding promising results. One area in which it is proving its potential is in restoring vision to patients who have been losing it since birth. Between 2008 and 2011 Jean Bennett, a neuroscientist at the University of Pennsylvania, and her colleagues used gene therapy to treat blindness in 12 adults and children with Lebers congenital amaurosis (LCA)

PHOENIX – A group of Arizona doctors are getting ready to take a trip down to Mexico. Their mission is to help give hundreds of people better vision — and even restore sight to some that are blind.

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April is named National Home Eye Health Month to help bring attention to the dangers to our vision that exist in our everyday lives.

Nine years after a corneal transplant restored vision to his left eye, Robert Gusinsky thinks daily about the donor. I dont think you ever forget, Gusinsky said. Gusinskys surgery took place in 2003, when Dr

Posted: Saturday, March 31, 2012 12:00 am | Updated: 9:56 am, Sat Mar 31, 2012. Hunched over a drawing desk in her bedroom, Allison Keagy sketched confidently, a green mechanical pencil locked in her fist. Her nose nearly touched the paper

Janice Smith, Maryland Heights, can still remember how isolating her life had become before she had cornea transplant surgery in both of her eyes several years ago.

Vicky Smith, from Cawston, who needs eye treatment to save her sight. PHOTO: ANTONY KELLY A 27-year-old woman from Cawston is urging health authorities to change their funding criteria after fears she may have to pay thousands of pounds to save her sight