Artificial Retina, Video Camera Give Partial Vision to Blind By Rob Waters Oct. 20 (Bloomberg) -- A miniature video camera in the center of his eyeglass frames...
Bionic Eye Opens New World Of Sight For The Blind Stem cells and electronics can help restore vision to people who’ve been blinded by retinal diseases,...
Hi, my name is Erin a I recently joined the group. I went to the optometrist this summer and was told I needed to see the retinologist because of some...
ngineered light-sensitive molecules, introduced into a blind rodent's eye caused it to see, according to results from an interdisciplinary collaboration among...
two experimental treatments, a retinal prosthesis and fetal tissue transplant, restored some vision to people with blinding eye diseases. The findings,...
cienceDaily (Oct. 21, 2009) — Engineered, light-sensitive molecules introduced into a blind rodent's eye resulted in vision, according to results from an...
Erin, My name is Donny. I cannot tell you that you either have or have not RP. It was about 2 years before they told me that this is what I had. I had test and...
Interesting what you say. Before moving to Alabama, at 38, I saw an ophtamologist for routine exam. Perfect not even need glasses. When I moved back to SC 3 ...
I wholeheartedly agree. My 2 year old daughter has recently been diagnosed with retinitis punctata albescens (a variant of RP) and it took three pediatric...
Oct 22, 2009 I haven't posted in some time, but do read emails. My name is Kathryn and I was diagnoised with RP in or around 1992. There is no known family...
hello i want to ask about the treatment of retinitis pigmentosa with acupuncture "chinese medicine " because i know some one who claims that he can treat the...
Pennsylvania researchers using gene therapy have made significant improvements in vision in 12 patients with a rare inherited visual defect, a finding that...
Read that today, too! Very hopeful for the younger among us. Peg ... From: hasan arslanyuregi <hasan_arslanyuregi@...> Subject: [RetinitisPigmentosa]...
Foundation Fighting Blindness Chief Research Officer Available to Discuss Medical Breakthrough OWINGS MILLS, Md.--(Business Wire)-- Results from a breakthrough...
Definitively better than bionic eye for me. However, beyong the buzz word of gene therapy, can anybody give us a pragmatic explanation what it is . I got so...
For now there re 3hopes or roads to treat rp Bionic eye idea most studied one unfortunately and easist way because of ethical trial So much money is around...
My 2 year old has trouble with her lighting at night/early morning. She can reach the light switch but she cannot get to it without tripping over something...
My 2 year old has trouble with her lighting at night/early morning. She can reach the light switch but she cannot get to it without tripping over something...
How about those stars and planet lights. They are revolving globes that reflect light on the cieling. Rita To: retinitispigmentosa@yahoogroups.com From:...
Jean-Louis. ... gene therapy, can anybody give us a pragmatic explanation what it is . ... This article gives a good explanation of at least one technique for...
Thks Katherine this gives an appreciation. In any case, Bionic or Gene, somebody has to intervene on your eyes. Bill Barnes: If you read this know that I...
Please somebody else read this. It was not clear to me he has the symptoms of RP more AMD even though I did not experience AMD. Or what was missing was the...
I agree.. I see great straight ahead but have problems more with the peripheral.. particularly the lower part. But at 30 to get AMD I think is unusual so yes I...
It sounded more like he has Stargardt's disease or maybe one of the less common retinal degeneration diseases that can remove patches of vision anywhere. Or...
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(09)61836-5/fulltext Age-dependent effects of RPE65 gene therapy for Leber's congenital...
Bill, All, I am just back from that business trip to Europe I was concerned with. While traveling often, I never crossed the step of using the mobility...
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