Five blind Manchester patients will be among the first in the country to receive revolutionary bionic eye implants funded by the NHS. NHS England will provide funding for further testing of the Argus ...

The NHS will pay for 10 people with an inherited form of blindness to be fitted with “bionic eye” implants. Five patients with a condition known as retinitis pigmentosa will be treated at the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The National Health Service will fund bionic eye surgery for the first time, paying for 10 blind patients to ...

Ten people with an inherited form of blindness will be fitted with "bionic eye" implants in a procedure funded by NHS England. Five patients with retinitis pigmentosa will be treated at the Manchester ...

Blind patients are to be given bionic eyes on the NHS for the first time after a groundbreaking trial restored the sight of those taking part. Initially, doctors will fit a camera device called Argus ...

MORE people with blindness could be given the chance to see again as part of the second round of ground-breaking ‘bionic eye’ surgery. The research team at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford led ...

A woman, 72, from Honolulu has been blind for over two years but thanks to her new bionic eye she will miraculously be able to see again. The elderly Japanese woman underwent the four hour procedure ...

As one of this country’s best known style gurus, Susannah Constantine is known for her sharp sartorial eye. And this week the What Not To Wear presenter underwent surgery to save one of her most ...

A blind man has regained some of his sight after being fitted with a “bionic eye” by London surgeons. He is the first in the UK to benefit from a trial of a pioneering system at Moorfields Eye ...

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

A new implantable bionic lens promises to give people superhuman vision at any age. The Ocumetics Bionic Lens, developed by optometrist Dr Garth Webb, would give you vision that’s THREE TIMES better ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest UK news every morning. The National Health Service will fund bionic eye surgery for the first time, paying for 10 blind patients to ...