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 ...

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. “We also found the severity of the donor’s ...

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 ...

It's a day trip to the Potawatomi Zoo for the Chavez family. Oliver Chavez, a four year old from South Bend is now able to visit and see all the different animals ...

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 ...

Reviewing this Healio | OSN cover story on eye banks prompted me to read again my quite controversial Lindstrom’s Perspective from the July 25, 2017, issue. The interested reader can find this ...

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 ...

For 56-year-old retiree Betty Walen, a routine eye appointment turned into a life-changing day more than 30 years ago, when she was diagnosed with a degenerative eye disease. Soon after the ...

Nick Kharufeh said he never thought he would see out of his left eye again after suffering an injury several years ago. Now, he is advocating for the procedure that restored his vision. The accident ...

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 ...