A tiny telescope designed to be implanted in the eyes of some elderly patients should not receive Food and Drug Administration approval, an FDA panel recommended on a 10-3 vote. The agency’s ophthalmic devices panel recommended against the pea-sized bionic device for safety reasons, spokeswoman Heidi Valetkevitch said. The first-of-its-kind device is called the Implantable Miniature Telescope. The telephoto lens could enable some patients to do away with the special glasses and handheld telescopes they now use to compensate for the loss in central vision caused by disease, according to VisionCare Ophthalmic Technologies.