3. What it would be like…. to be unable to read a book ordrive a car or prepare your own meals.
4. Imagine what it would be like to lack the ability to live an independent life.
5. In the United States alone, 70,000people are diagnosed with End-Stage Macular Degeneration each year.
6. A person inflicted with this disease of the eye loses the ability to perform even the most simple tasks. The majority of sufferers are considered Legally blind.
7. With few treatment options available, patients are forced to use external telescopes and hand-held magnifiers, which only become a burden in everyday life.
8. But the use of the Implantable Miniature Telescope can help them change the way they see the world.
9. The IMT eliminates the need for external assistants by existing as one tiny, implantable device that does all the work of a telescope and magnifying glass, while going completely unnoticed in the human eye.
10. As the first FDAapproved vision-improving implantable device, The Implantable Miniature Telescopemay be the lastchance for sufferers of End-Stage Macular Degeneration to live a normal life.
11. The Ravens: Tracy Nelson Katie Ganzel Megan Proulx Jake Radzak Mike Malone
