Dehydrated corneas were noninferior to standard donor corneas for deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty, according to a ...

WAILEA, Hawaii — Corneal irregularities should not be missed and must be treated before patients are scheduled for cataract surgery to avoid disappointing refractive outcomes. At Hawaiian Eye 2024, ...

Swiss researchers recently have been developing 3D printed, biocompatible corneal implants that restore vision without donor ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists in Canada and Sweden have used laboratory-made biosynthetic corneas to restore vision to patients in a small human trial, and shown for the first time that they can help ...

Julianna Dolinski was just two years old when her mom underwent LASIK surgery — a procedure meant to improve vision. Instead ...

An eye patient says his life has been put on hold because he is one of thousands of people waiting for a cornea transplant ...

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 ...

The federal government in 2020 and 2023 changed its rules on organ and blood donation, reducing the restrictions on men who have had sex with another man. But the Food and Drug Administration’s old ...

Noah Healy, the inventor of kPlug, a device that repairs corneal perforations, stands outside the University of Iowa BioVentures Center at the Iowa Research Park in Coralville, where he works in the ...

Until 2015, men who have had sex with another man weren’t allowed to donate blood – and there were still limits on their donations until last year, when the federal government lifted those.