http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/05/27/possible-cure-for-blindness-implanting-a-telescope-in-your-eye/ Sat, 11 May 2013 22:50:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/05/27/possible-cure-for-blindness-implanting-a-telescope-in-your-eye/#comment-11929 Angela Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:52:56 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/05/27/possible-cure-for-blindness-implanting-a-telescope-in-your-eye/#comment-11929 My dad is legally blind from wet macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy. So if this treatment pans out, I'm sure he'll be first in line to sign up for it! My dad is legally blind from wet macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy. So if this treatment pans out, I’m sure he’ll be first in line to sign up for it!

]]> http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/05/27/possible-cure-for-blindness-implanting-a-telescope-in-your-eye/#comment-11928 New Contacts Claim to Fix Your Vision While You Sleep | Discoblog | Discover Magazine Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:29:55 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/05/27/possible-cure-for-blindness-implanting-a-telescope-in-your-eye/#comment-11928 [...] Many of us with less-than-perfect vision fantasize about waking up one morning able to see perfectly. Wish no more: There are contact lenses that claim to shape the lens of your eye while you sleep, eventually giving nearsighted people perfect vision (a remedy that’s significantly less sci-fi than a telescope implanted in the eye). [...] [...] Many of us with less-than-perfect vision fantasize about waking up one morning able to see perfectly. Wish no more: There are contact lenses that claim to shape the lens of your eye while you sleep, eventually giving nearsighted people perfect vision (a remedy that’s significantly less sci-fi than a telescope implanted in the eye). [...]

]]> http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/05/27/possible-cure-for-blindness-implanting-a-telescope-in-your-eye/#comment-11927 D. P. Thompson Thu, 28 May 2009 05:42:47 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/05/27/possible-cure-for-blindness-implanting-a-telescope-in-your-eye/#comment-11927 Sounds promising. Can imagine it's could be a real headache retraining the way one's viewed the world for 60 yrs. Surprised neither Dickinson nor VisionCare Inc. made any reference to the scope's effectiveness relative to the two (2) types of AMD; the wet macular degeneration & dry macular degeneration. Thanks, R.S.V.P., DPT Sounds promising. Can imagine it’s could be a real headache retraining the way one’s viewed the world for 60 yrs.
Surprised neither Dickinson nor VisionCare Inc. made any reference to the scope’s effectiveness relative to the two (2) types of AMD; the wet macular degeneration & dry macular degeneration.
Thanks, R.S.V.P.,
DPT

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