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Stem-cell treatment helps restore eye-sight (Science Pal)

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 07:20:00 GMT

Six blind patients have had their eye-sight restored after undergoing pioneering stem cell transplants. Researchers at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London treated the patients as part of a clinical trial on patients who have lost their sight from chemical accidents or a rare genetic disease. Using stem cells from tissue donors, surgeons grew the cells in the laboratory before transplanting...

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Portraits of macular degeneration (Medical Humanities)

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 09:22:00 GMT

Artist Adam Hahn is exhibiting work resulting from his year-long research of how the vision is affected of people suffering from the common eye disease, macular degeneration. He worked with opthalmologist Professor Pete Coffey and used data from the Moorfields Eye Hospital. But mostly he talked to his sitters. The project is important in that Hahn found that medical textbooks often misrepresent...

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VOBES - No. 970 (Vobes Show)

richard@vobes.com — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 23:00:00 GMT

I am at Moorfields eye Hospital having my long awaited eye operation which I hope I will finally get rid of this damn bug. Meanwhile, Paul Stoneman in putting on weight in the USA and well wishers email in!

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Science thwarts God's will once again (Doug's Dynamic Drivel)

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:19:03 GMT

Well that's how the fundies would put it at least. Me, I say wow - awesome stuff Steven Howarth, who has a rare form of childhood blindness, navigates a maze before and after receiving gene therapy. The trial, at University College London and Moorfields Eye hospital, is the first to use gene therapy to improve the [...]

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Video: Before and after surgery (The Guardian)

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 23:01:33 GMT

Steven Howarth, who has a rare form of childhood blindness, navigates a maze before and after receiving gene therapy. The trial, at University College London and Moorfields Eye hospital, is the first to use gene therapy to improve the vision of blind patients

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Leading article: Clearer view (The Independent)

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 23:00:01 GMT

Specialists at Moorfields Eye Hospital might not have staged a repeat of the biblical miracle of giving sight to the blind, but in medical terms what they have accomplished is almost as exciting.

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The Bionic Eye (The Optometry Blog, by CLEARVIEW)

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 08:27:33 GMT

On Monday, the BBC reported a trial of a ‘Bionic eye’ at Moorfields eye Hospital and how it may hold the key to returning sight to people left blind by a hereditary disease. The full transcript of the article can be read here: Article What are our thoughts about this exciting new development within the wide world [...]

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Bionic eye ‘blindness cure hope’ (Ph articles)

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:59:59 GMT

A 'bionic eye' may clutch the key to returning sight to people left rash by a hereditary disease, experts believe. A team at London's Moorfields Eye Hospital have carried out the treatment on the UK's first patients as business of a clinical study into the therapy. The artificial eye, coupled to a camera on a span of spectacles, has been developed by US firm Second perception. It said...

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Two patients receive bionic eyes (Poor Mojo Newswire)

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:37:27 GMT

Charlie's Diary: A 21st century headline Two blind patients underwent the procedure, which surgeons say 'is straight out of science fiction', at Moorfields Eye Hospital in central London last week and are said to be "doing well". Surgeons implanted an electronic device into the back of the eye to allow the patients to distinguish objects as pictures made up of spots of light. The device...

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Bionic Eye Could Help Cure Blindness (Londonist)

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:13:19 GMT

It sounds a bit like something out of sci-fi TV show, but the clever folks at Moorfields Eye Hospital have dreamed up a bionic eye and implanted it in their first two patients. The artificial eye, called Argus II, is implanted and attached to the retina, which feeds to a camera on a pair of glasses. This will hopefully help restore basic sight to those that have lost it because of a...

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VOBES - No. 940 (Vobes Show)

richard@vobes.com (Richard Vobes) — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:00:00 GMT

Its Friday and yesterday I went to Moorfields eye hospital and they say they want to hack at my eye with knives! Also Jimmy and I take a walk around the delighful village of Burpham.

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Moorfields Eye Hospital uses software to prevent blindness (TechTaxi)

Sat, 08 Mar 2008 07:06:00 GMT

Screening software will help detect early signs of glaucoma London's Moorfields Eye Hospital is using software to spot early signs of glaucoma and hopes the system will help prevent blindness. The screening technology is the result of a nine-year partnership between researchers from the hospital and two universities and is in the final stages of development. In the UK, about 500,000...

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Moorfields Eye Hospital uses software to prevent blindness (Computing.co.uk)

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Angelica Mari, Computing , Friday 7 March 2008 at 00:00:00 Screening software will help detect early signs of glaucoma London's Moorfields Eye Hospital is using software to spot early signs of glaucoma and hopes the system will help prevent blindness.... > Read the full article

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Moorfields Eye Hospital Develop New Glaucoma Test (Londonist)

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:10:04 GMT

Seeing is quite a big part of our day, reading the news, figuring out public transport and attempting to match our clothes, so we plan on doing whatever we can to keep our vision as long as possible. Luckily, doctors at Moorfields Eye Hospital, led by Professor Vis Viswanathan, have developed a new, painless test to spot glaucoma -- also scarily know as the "silent blinding disease"...

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