You can now throw those reading glasses away


It’s an implant that corrected near-sightedness for 80% of clinical trial participants without interfering with their ability to see into the distance.

A thin, circular eye implant could remedy near-sightedness, otherwise known as presbyopia, according to research presented recently at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Ophthalmology.

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