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Revolutionary new PRIMA implant restores some vision to patients with dry age-related macular degeneration (AMD)

A group of blind patients can now read again after being fitted with a life-changing implant at the back of the eye. The microchips were inserted in five patients at Moorfields Eye Hospital as part of a clinical trial.

You can find out more about this development, which offers hope to people with an advanced form of dry AMD, on the Macular Society website. The story has also been featured in a report by BBC News.