In a report last month, doctors made an alarming prediction for more than 43 million Americans - they will be developing age-related eye diseases by 2020!
This disturbing statistics is prompting scientists to come up with remedies to the approaching health crisis in the United States. In a bid to find a solution, they have designed new devices that may not only stop but also reverse damages, the age-related macular degeneration may cause.
These new miniature telescope-like devices are implanted in the damaged eyes of patients, which may halt and even reverse the loss of vision! To meet the prevailing crisis, the Food and Drug Administration gives nod to the ophthalmologists for implanting the new miniature telescope-like devices in damaged eyes of patients.
The lead author Kathryn Colby, an ophthalmologist and director of the Joint Clinical Research Center at the Massachusetts
Eye and Ear Infirmary in Boston rightly said, This is a good device and it offers hope for people with no other options.
Since, until this new discovery there were no known treatment for correcting macular degeneration, doctors only could reduce eye disease-risk - either by using laser treatment or eyewear with special magnifying capabilities. They also used to keep it in check with nutritional supplements, which include antioxidants and zinc.
It seems the new devices have come with the only real solution to the predicted grim future.
