About 30 million people around the world have grown legally blind due to retinal diseases. The EPI-RET project has sought for a technical solution for the past twelve years to help these patients.

A retinal prosthesis system can safely, effectively, and reliably restore enough visual function to patients with late-stage retinitis pigmentosa to improve object detection and overall well-being, ...

HONOLULU — A subset of patients treated for presbyopia with scleral implants experienced a clinically significant improvement in near visual acuity, according to a poster presented at the Association ...

The EPIRET3 retinal prosthesis was implanted in six volunteers legally blind from retinitis pigmentosa (RP) and removed after 4 weeks. Two years later, these subjects were re-examined to investigate ...

Many ophthalmologists, but especially non-ophthalmology physicians and the general public, are unaware of the burden of blindness, according to a physician. Gary Brown, MD, MBA, told colleagues at the ...

Implants buried deep inside the brain may provide the best hope yet for vision-restoring bionic eyes. Most visual prosthetics rely on implants behind the retina. These stimulate surrounding nerve ...

This release is available in German. For twelve years, experts from different disciplines in the fields of microelectronics, neurophysics, information engineering, computer science, materials science ...

Second Sight, the California-based developer of visual prosthetics and retinal implants, will soon begin a feasibility clinical study to assess its Orion cortical visual prosthesis system in human ...

This consortium is working on a prosthesis that focuses on the visual cerebral cortex. Maureen van der Grinten emphasizes: "At the moment there is a discrepancy between the amount of electrodes we can ...

The global visual prosthesis market is expanding substantially, indicative of heightened investment and advancements in clinical applications. Technological innovations, the rising incidence of visual ...

Implanting intraocular lenses (IOLs) after cataract surgery in infants is neither beneficial nor detrimental to long-term visual outcomes, according to a study published in JAMA Ophthalmology. In this ...