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 ...

Our eyes are delicate muscles, and many things can cause them to not work properly. If you’ve recently had eye surgery, your doctor may have warned you about bullous keratopathy. Bullous keratopathy ...

More than 150 million Americans have poor vision because of a refractive error. Refractive errors make your vision blurry or hazy, making reading difficult, and can ...

Researchers and entrepreneurs have developed an implant made of collagen protein from pig's skin, which resembles the human cornea. In a pilot study, the implant restored vision to 20 people with ...

Intrastromal corneal ring segments (INTACS) is a non-laser procedure that involves implanting two tiny plastic arcs in the cornea. These crescents are placed in the outer edge of the cornea and ...

An 85-year-old woman who has a degenerative eye condition said a vital cornea transplant now means she can care for her ...

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 ...

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 ...