HOUSTON — Patients in Houston are some of the first in the country to be offered a new kind of corneal transplant as part of a clinical trial. The cornea is the clear outer layer at the front of your ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Corneal transplantation for keratoconus has traditionally been performed as a full-thickness penetrating ...

In an ongoing phase 1 clinical trial, a patient who was recognized as legally blind was implanted with a 3D bioprinted corneal implant.According to a press release from Precise Bio, the implant, known ...

A Conception Bay South man says the estimated five-year wait time for cornea transplants in Newfoundland and Labrador — one of only two provinces without an organ bank for eye tissue — is far too long ...

Thiruvananthapuram: Thiruvananthapuram Government General Hospital has successfully completed five corneal transplant ...

An expanded clinical trial that tested an experimental stem cell treatment for blinding cornea injuries found the treatment was feasible and safe in 14 patients who were treated and followed for 18 ...

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 ...

The refinement of a procedure is giving fresh hope to people with eye diseases that affect the cornea and can lead to blindness. The cornea is a clear bubble that covers the front of the eye. An inner ...

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 ...

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 ...