If you can see by simply slipping on a pair of glasses, or if you don’t need glasses or contact lenses at all, the gift of sight is something we can easily take for granted. For millions of people ...

The first-ever corneal stem-cell transplants in the U.S. proved feasible and safe, allowed patients to receive new corneas, and in some cases improved vision as a solo procedure, a small preliminary ...

There’s a new traveling art show in town – and it’s being shown in places that probably aren’t the first anyone would look. Rocky Mountain Lions Eye Bank – the state’s only eye bank for cornea tissue ...

The first time Phillip Durst saw the big A on the chart, he could hardly believe it. It was the first in a series of letters to check his vision in his left eye. “They keep flipping the chart and it ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A 54-year-old man was referred in late 2014 for a consultation for corneal transplant surgery in the left eye.

Cornea disease and refractive surgery specialist, Majid Moshirfar, M.D., F.A.C.S., of the John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah performed the first ever laser-based cornea transplant in ...

CLEVELAND - A new predictor of cornea transplant success has been identified by the Cornea Donor Study (CDS) Investigator Group. New analysis of data from the 2008 Specular Microscopy Ancillary Study ...

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 ...

A special meeting was held in Philadelphia for two families linked through an eye-opening transplant. Debbie Krigstein's vision was restored following a cornea transplant, and she got a chance to meet ...

November is Eye Donation Month, an effort to boost new organ, eye, and tissue donor registrations and spread the word about giving the selfless gift of sight in Colorado. Reflecting on old photos and ...

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 ...