VisionCare’s Macular Degeneration Telescope Implant Named ‘Best Of What’s New’ 2010 By Popular Science

VisionCare Ophthalmic Technologies, Inc., a developer of advanced visual prosthetic devices, today announced the Implantable Miniature Telescope (by Dr. Isaac Lipshitz), designed to improve vision in patients with end-stage age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is named "Best of What's New" 2010 by Popular Science magazine. VisionCare's first-of-kind telescope implant is integral to a new patient care program, CentraSight?, for treating patients with end-stage macular degeneration - the most advanced form of AMD and the leading cause of blindness in older Americans in the U.S. The telescope implant is the first and only treatment for AMD patients who progress to end-stage disease.