AP -- Dr. Paul Dougherty delicately slipped a tiny lens inside the right eye of 7-year-old Megan Garvin — a last-ditch shot at saving her sight in that eye. The California girl last week became one of a small number of U.S. children to try an experimental surgery to prevent virtual blindness from lazy eye diagnosed too late, or too severe, for standard treatment.The new approach: Implantable lenses, the same kind that nearsighted adults can have inserted for crisper vision — but that aren’t officially approved for use in children.
