Potential new treatment for farsightedness may offer alternative to eyeglasses, contacts.

Business Wire | April 24, 1997 | Copyright

FREMONT, Calif.--(BW HEALTH WIRE)--April 24, 1997--A potential breakthrough technology that might some day eliminate the need for eyeglasses and contacts for people with farsightedness was surgically used on two patients on April 17, resulting in 20/40 correction or better in both cases. Farsightedness is the inability to clearly see objects that are close up.

If successful in long-term study, the tiny polymer insert -- developed by KeraVision, Inc. (Nasdaq: KERA) and known as the ICS (trademark pending) -- could mark the first surgical treatment for ...

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