Implantable contact lenses, known as phakic intraocular lenses (IOLs) to ophthalmologists, are presently being investigated and utilized as another refractive procedure. There are two phakic IOLs presently FDA approved in the U.S. They are the Verisyse Phakic IOL produced by AMO and the Visian ICL made by Staar surgical. In general, phakic ...

I read the very interesting article in last month's Wired describing the writer's experience of getting a brain implant to combat the symptoms of Parkinson's disease. I kind of expect that sort of thing in Wired, but a few days later I ran across this first article of a series in the Vancouver Sun about a woman about to go through the whole ...