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Grandmother, 88, first in UK to detect signals in eye using bionic chip

An 88-year-old grandmother who lost the sight in her left eye has become the first person in the UK to detect signals in her eye using a “revolutionary” new bionic chip. The woman, who has seven children and eight grandchildren, suffers from ...

21 Jan 2022 at 01:25

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Eye patients forced to travel to Sligo for treatment

Elderly Inishowen patients are being forced to travel to Sligo University Hospital to receive treatment for the chronic eye condition, macular degeneration. Along with what this newspaper understands to be a significant number of other ...

04 May 2022 at 15:33

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Eye patients forced to travel to Sligo for treatment

04 May 2022 at 14:33

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Elderly eye patients still forced to travel to Sligo

It appears, for the foreseeable future, elderly Inishowen patients will have no option but to travel to Sligo University Hospital to receive monthly intravitreal injections for the chronic eye condition macular degeneration. ...

26 May 2022 at 13:33

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Elderly eye patients still forced to travel to Sligo

26 May 2022 at 13:33

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Judi Dench discusses future work as she admits she cannot see on film sets

Dame Judi Dench has admitted she can no longer see on film sets due to her deteriorating eyesight but hopes to still work “as much as I can”. The 88-year-old Oscar-winning actress has previously revealed she has macular ...

30 Jul 2023 at 14:19

Health & Wellbeing

7 ways you could be damaging your eye health without even realising

Our eyesight is often something we take for granted – until there’s something wrong with it. Problems like short-sightedness (myopia) are rapidly increasing. In fact, research has predicted that by 2050 there will be 4,...

15 Sept 2023 at 07:45

Dame Judi Dench: It has become impossible to read my scripts

Dame Judi Dench has said she now finds it “impossible” to read scripts because of her deteriorating eyesight. The Oscar-winning actress, 88, said she has a “photographic memory” and wants to find a machine that is ...

17 Feb 2023 at 10:51

Eye disease risk ‘reduces with common drugs for other conditions’ – study

Taking drugs to control diabetes and lower cholesterol may reduce a person’s risk of developing a common eye disease, a new study suggests. The new study, published in the British Journal of Ophthalmology, saw ...

08 Nov 2022 at 00:30

Radiotherapy delivered by robots could improve treatment for common eye disease

Radiotherapy administered by robots could improve treatment for a debilitating eye condition, a trial has found. The approach means patients would no longer require regular injections into their eye to ...

11 Jun 2024 at 23:30

Boosting key eye cells protein ‘could protect older adults against sight loss’

Boosting a key protein in eye cells could help protect adults aged 50 and older against the biggest cause of sight loss, scientists have found. Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) – a common ...

05 Jun 2024 at 19:00

What is the Prima device and how does it work?

Patients with vision loss caused by a common but untreatable condition are able to read again thanks to a groundbreaking eye implant, but what is the device and how does it help? – What is the ...

20 Oct 2025 at 13:00

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