Entries from Londonist tagged with 'moorfieldseyehospital'
September 1, 2008
This Week In London’s History Monday – 1st September 1856: Richard Westmacott, the sculptor responsible for numerous London landmarks, dies at his Mayfair home. Tuesday – 2nd September 1666: The Great Fire of London breaks out. It would burn for three days, destroying over 13,000 buildings. Wednesday – 3rd September 1878: Passenger steamer Princess Alice collides with cargo ship Bywell Castle on the Thames near Woolwich Pier. All of the 700 passengers of the......
Continue Reading "Monday Miscellanea"April 22, 2008
It sounds a bit like something out of sci-fi TV show, but the clever folks at Moorfields Eye Hospital have dreamed up a bionic eye and implanted it in their first two patients. The artificial eye, called Argus II, is implanted and attached to the retina, which feeds to a camera on a pair of glasses. This will hopefully help restore basic sight to those that have lost it because of a hereditary illness.......
Continue Reading "Bionic Eye Could Help Cure Blindness"March 6, 2008
Seeing is quite a big part of our day, reading the news, figuring out public transport and attempting to match our clothes, so we plan on doing whatever we can to keep our vision as long as possible. Luckily, doctors at Moorfields Eye Hospital, led by Professor Vis Viswanathan, have developed a new, painless test to spot glaucoma -- also scarily know as the "silent blinding disease" -- in its early stages. The Moorfields Motion......
Continue Reading "Moorfields Eye Hospital Develop New Glaucoma Test"