Many families mistakenly believe that certain health issues make eye donation impossible. However, factors like wearing ...

This story is part of a series on the current progression in Regenerative Medicine. This piece is part of a series dedicated to the eye and improvements in restoring vision. In 1999, I defined ...

SINGAPORE—For people whose vision has been severely affected by a damaged or diseased cornea, a transplant can offer a chance to see clearly again. But there is a major obstacle: There simply are not ...

Nov. 28—ANDERSON — Cloudy vision could be caused by an array of things, some benign, some not. For 65-year-old Mike Dauss, it was the latter. An abnormality was discovered during an annual eye exam in ...

India performs 25,000–30,000 corneal transplants yearly against a need of 1 lakh+, with donor cornea shortages the key ...

"My father used to wear glasses. "How do we give his eye?". We ophthalmologists hear this statement quite often. People ...

CLEVELAND - One year post-surgery, patients who underwent Descemet’s stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty (DSAEK) experienced greater cell loss overall compared to those who underwent ...

(Crown Point, Indiana) July 8, 2004 - Laverne Pope is one of the more than 40,000 people who get cornea transplant operations each year, "'Cause I work at a computer, and I can't see what I type in." ...

Many eye banks won't accept corneas from donors with diabetes, concerned they might be harder to prepare for transplant surgery or are more likely to fail. The implication is that the number of ...

Corneal blindness, a condition that can often be reversed with timely intervention, requires access to surgical methods.

Claes Dohlman, an ophthalmologist whose research into diseased and damaged eyes led to the development of an artificial cornea that restored vision to thousands of patients considered unsuitable for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nov. 28—ANDERSON — Cloudy vision could be caused by an array of things, some benign, some not. For 65-year-old Mike Dauss, it was ...