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The application of this prosthesis in a new clinical situation is a significant development. Rathfelder ( talk) 10:17, 22 July 2015 (UTC)
These are matters of judgement. My judgement is that this is a sufficiently significant development to merit inclusion in the encyclopedia. The report is factual. It doesn't suggest that the prosthesis is available to everyone today. The policy does not say that news should never be included. Rathfelder ( talk) 14:43, 22 July 2015 (UTC)
Wikipedia tells me "No medical or surgical treatment " is available for dry AMD. Is it wrong? 180 people with RP have been fitted with these bionic eyes. It's now a recognised treatment - but rather expensive - for that. I can't see any reason suggested in the very widespread coverage that it won't work for AMD. In fact it might work better for AMD than RP.
There is now a little more detail about what exactly is going on in Manchester: Professor Stanga said "As far as I am concerned, the first results of the trial are a total success and I look forward to treating more dry AMD patients with the Argus II as part of this trial. We are currently recruiting four more patients to the trial in Manchester." [1] Rathfelder ( talk) 22:52, 22 July 2015 (UTC)
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Of course. But this is engineering, not medicine. There are fewer unknowns. Rathfelder ( talk) 23:07, 22 July 2015 (UTC)
But we understand what is going on in considerably more detail than we do with most medication. Also patients cannot go out and buy this over the internet so there is less risk of the article doing damage. When there is an earthquake, or a terrorist atrocity, W does not wait until everything is analysed in peer reviewed journals before producing an article. The rest of the world thinks this is significant. As more details are emerging - like this in Optics - I think we can produce a more balanced report. Rathfelder ( talk) 10:43, 23 July 2015 (UTC)
The rule about secondary sources doesn't apply to you then? You can quote directly from the FDA and turn your nose up at the Daily Mail, which is a secondary source? Rathfelder ( talk) 20:51, 23 August 2015 (UTC)
https://spectrum.ieee.org/bionic-eye-obsolete SEWilco ( talk) 01:39, 17 February 2022 (UTC)
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The application of this prosthesis in a new clinical situation is a significant development. Rathfelder ( talk) 10:17, 22 July 2015 (UTC)
These are matters of judgement. My judgement is that this is a sufficiently significant development to merit inclusion in the encyclopedia. The report is factual. It doesn't suggest that the prosthesis is available to everyone today. The policy does not say that news should never be included. Rathfelder ( talk) 14:43, 22 July 2015 (UTC)
Wikipedia tells me "No medical or surgical treatment " is available for dry AMD. Is it wrong? 180 people with RP have been fitted with these bionic eyes. It's now a recognised treatment - but rather expensive - for that. I can't see any reason suggested in the very widespread coverage that it won't work for AMD. In fact it might work better for AMD than RP.
There is now a little more detail about what exactly is going on in Manchester: Professor Stanga said "As far as I am concerned, the first results of the trial are a total success and I look forward to treating more dry AMD patients with the Argus II as part of this trial. We are currently recruiting four more patients to the trial in Manchester." [1] Rathfelder ( talk) 22:52, 22 July 2015 (UTC)
References
Of course. But this is engineering, not medicine. There are fewer unknowns. Rathfelder ( talk) 23:07, 22 July 2015 (UTC)
But we understand what is going on in considerably more detail than we do with most medication. Also patients cannot go out and buy this over the internet so there is less risk of the article doing damage. When there is an earthquake, or a terrorist atrocity, W does not wait until everything is analysed in peer reviewed journals before producing an article. The rest of the world thinks this is significant. As more details are emerging - like this in Optics - I think we can produce a more balanced report. Rathfelder ( talk) 10:43, 23 July 2015 (UTC)
The rule about secondary sources doesn't apply to you then? You can quote directly from the FDA and turn your nose up at the Daily Mail, which is a secondary source? Rathfelder ( talk) 20:51, 23 August 2015 (UTC)
https://spectrum.ieee.org/bionic-eye-obsolete SEWilco ( talk) 01:39, 17 February 2022 (UTC)