Revolutionary new cataract treatment offers vision of life without glasses - The Times Online - 9th January 2008

Patients who have cataracts could soon be reading the small print of The Times without glasses, according to eye specialists. New techniques that use the latest eye implants promise to restore the sight of patients for both long and short distances, potentially eliminating their need for spectacles. Cataract patients are being recruited for a study in London hospitals to compare the latest high-tech lenses that are implanted into the eye with those available on the NHS. Using the “multifocal” lenses, eight out of ten patients can give up wearing glasses after surgery. But researchers suggest that a cheaper solution, in which one eye is given a long-distance lens and the other a lens for reading, could have comparable benefits. With this “monovision” technique, the brain accommodates two eyes that see the world differently, and adjust to form the clearest image, they say.

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