Tagged blindness

National Health Service plans to pay for 10 patients to receive “bionic eye” implant

West Side Story

Dec 27, 2016

Health, Policy, Science

England’s National Health Service is planning to pay for 10 patients to receive a “bionic eye” implant, able to restore some sight to people who have been blind for years. Funding of these implants by the NHS c...

Blindness can now be cured with Embryonic Stem Cell Treatment

Siddhant Ghatge

Oct 15, 2014

Stem Cells derived from a human embryo, have been proved to have caused patients none of the problems scientists feared, such as forming tumours, and reversed partial blindness in about half the eyes receiving ...