Author: Ken West
Susvimo implant for Wet AMD Voluntarily Recalled
Doing Nothing (When There’s Nothing To Do)
Remember the Saturdays of our childhoods, when hours were forever, and the day was interminable? When our young worlds turned so slowly that super cool ideas for the day became passé by lunch, leaving us facing a void of unexpected idleness? What did we do with all that extra time? We probably spent it trying [Read More]
Samsara Vision Announces Clinical Trial for New Investigational Implantable Miniature Telescope
CONCERTO clinical trial is seeking participants to evaluate the new investigational SING IMT Long-time members of our AMD community may remember FDA approval in 2010 of a device from Samsara Vision (formerly VisionCare, Inc.) called the Implantable Miniature Telescope (IMT). This device is a tiny telescope which provides precision images, magnification of up to 3 times, [Read More]
Seeing Red
What makes us angry? As visually impaired and blind senior adults, we often find ourselves metaphorically seeing red when confronted by life without our most dominant sense. We are angered by our loss of independence, our inability to fight injustices, and by the ignorance or indifference of others. Since most of us hale from the [Read More]