In recent years, medtech start-ups have made great strides in developing technologies to treat eye disease such as cataracts, diminishing vision, and even dry eye. But the greatest leaps – or the most life changing – may have been executed by companies that are finding ways to actually help blind people see. Second Sight Medical Products Inc. remains the highest profile example of how medtech is achieving what was once impossible. Over the past two years, the US Food and Drug Administration gave a green light to the Argus II Retinal Prosthesis System, a camera-equipped system designed to at least partially restore vision of people suffering from retinitis pigmentosa. (SeeAlso see "Second Sight Shows The Way" - In Vivo, 23 March, 2015..)
Helping The Blind To See: Medtech Start-Ups Focus On Vision Restoration
In recent years, medtech start-ups have made great strides in developing technologies to treat eye disease such as cataracts, diminishing vision, and even dry eye. But the greatest leaps – or the most life changing – may have been executed by companies such as Second Sight Medical Products Inc. and Wicab Inc. that are finding ways to actually help blind people see.
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