Brain implant restores partial vision to blind people

Press Association | July 13, 2019 | theGuardian.com

Medical experts hail paradigm shift

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Partial sight has been restored to six blind people via an implant that transmits video images directly to the brain.

Some vision was made possible – with the participants’ eyes bypassed – by a video camera attached to glasses which sent footage to electrodes implanted in the visual cortex of the brain.

University College London lecturer and Optegra Eye Hospital surgeon Alex Shortt said it was a significant development by specialists from Baylor Medical College in Texas and the University of California Los Angeles.

“Previously all attempts to create a bionic eye focused on implanting into the eye itself. It required you to have a working eye, a working optic nerve,” Shortt told the Daily Mail.

“By bypassing the eye completely you open the potential up to many, many more people...”

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Vaxxed TV brings you Robert Zajac, MD

This pediatrician has witnessed and experienced with his own patients that unvaccinated children are healthier than vaccinated ones. Read more.

“Safe vaccines are the goal… Accountability for vaccine injuries is critical … I read about an hour a day about vaccines…”

This doctor alone loses $700,000/year for not bullying all his patients to be fully vaccinated. His clinic forgoes $1.7 million/year…


UPDATE: Conscience rights

NY Daily News | July 10, 2019

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sues NY in attempt to stop state from outlawing religious exemptions to vaccinations

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UPDATE: 2019-'20 Flu vaccine may not work

StatNews | Helen Branswell |September 30, 2019

Flu vaccine selections may be an ominous sign for this winter

It’s never an easy business to predict which flu viruses will make people sick the following winter. And there’s reason to believe two of the four choices made last winter for this upcoming season’s vaccine could be off the mark.

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...and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind ... the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind ...the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good. -Genesis 1

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