TELESCOPE IMPLANT INSIDE EYE TO FIGHT AGE RELATED BLINDNESS

Strange as it may seem,US health officials have approved a first-of-its-kind technology to counter a leading cause of blindness in older adults - a tiny telescope implanted inside the eye.The Implantable Miniature Telescope aims to help in the end stages of incurable age - related muscular degeneration,a creeping loss of central vision that blocks reading.watching TV,eventually even recognizing faces.The telescope is surgically inserted into one eye for better central vision,while leaving the other eye alone for peripheral vision.The brain then fuses two views into a single image.The Food and Drug administration said 90 % of telescope recipients had their vision improve by at least two lines on an eye chart.