A few weeks ago, all that changed. Fulton suffers from retinitis pigmentosa—a degenerative eye disease that slowly causes light-sensitive cells in the retina to die off. Over the course of ...

151; -- Thanks to a revolutionary procedure, a woman who had been blind for 16 years is now able to see. Carmen Torres, of South Florida, is the first recipient of a bionic eye. At 18, she was ...

Dianne Ashworth has her eyes, both bionic and natural, tested. David Mirabella, Bionic Vision Australia Move over Terminator: the bionic eye is now real. Dianne Ashworth lost her vision due to ...

"But now I have an additional tool that gives me more confidence in my daily life." The bionic eye system includes special glasses that are hooked up to a device that transmits images to the optic ...

Scientists have taken an important step towards helping visually impaired people lead independent lives after a bionic eye gave a blind Australian woman partial sight. Dianne Ashworth, who has ...

WEBVTT ♪ERIKA: IN YOUR HEALTH TONIGHT,IMAGINE YOUR WORLD SLOWING GOINGDARK.THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED TO ONEMASSACHUSETTS WOMAN WHO THOUGHTSHE ... COME THE LIGHTIN HER EYES GETTING DIMMER OVERTIME.ALL ...

A woman who has gradually been losing her sight for years has been describing the joys of being able to see again after being fitted with a bionic eye. Rhian Lewis, from Cardiff, Wales ...

Now, almost 14 years later a chip implanted in her eyes gives the 50-year-old woman the chance to have her vision partially restored. The high-tech bionic eye consists of an electronic implant ...

A blind woman fitted with a "bionic eye" has spoken of her joy after she was able to tell the time for the first time in more than five years. Rhian Lewis, 49, was given the retinal implant as ...

Bionic Vision Australia (BVA), a government-funded science consortium, said it had surgically installed an “early prototype” robotic eye in a woman with hereditary sight loss caused by ...