News stories may exaggerate hope for vision treatments

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News stories may exaggerate hope for vision treatments

By Genevra Pittman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - News reports often overhype the potential benefits of novel treatments for disabling eye diseases, a new study suggests. Broadcast and Internet news reports, in particular, tended to be more enthusiastic about so-called retinal implants than the studies they were based on, researchers found. And the stories weren't always scientifically accurate. The hope is that such implants could one day help people who lose much of their eyesight due to macular degeneration or other diseases that damage the retina. ...

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