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    91-year-old becomes England's first artificial cornea transplant patient ...Tech & Science Daily podcast

    by Rachelle Abbott and Rochelle Travers Jun 04, 2024 1 minute
    Source: PA Wire

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    91-year-old Cecil ‘John’ Farley has made history as the first patient in England to receive an artificial cornea.

    John faced a year-long wait for sight-saving after a human cornea transplant failed, but his surgeon offered him the chance to skip the queue by using an artificial one.

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