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CHICAGO (PRWEB) May 26, 2021 -- Prevent Blindness, the nation’s oldest volunteer eye health and safety organization, will host the 10th annual Prevent

Study can help determine which diabetic individuals can donate corneas for keratoplasty About a third of the corneal transplant surgeries in the United States involve people with diabetes who donate their corneas after death. The number of corneal transplants has grown over the last decade, but through continuous research, the medical community has learned that not all corneal tissue from diabetics may be suitable for the procedure, known as keratoplasty. In a new study, supported by a five-yea...

contributed photo A new $6.4 million NIH grant supports a CWRU-led research team exploring the success of corneal transplants from diabetic donors. A $6.4 million federal grant will support a team of researchers — from Case Western Reserve University, University Hospitals and the Jaeb Center for Health Research — studying the success of transplants of corneal tissue donated from diabetic individuals after death. The number of corneal transplants has grown over the last decade, and about a ...

Credit: Case Western Reserve University CLEVELAND--About a third of the corneal transplant surgeries in the United States involve people with diabetes who donate their corneas after death. The number of corneal transplants has grown over the last decade, but through continuous research, the medical community has learned that not all corneal tissue from diabetics may be suitable for the procedure, known as keratoplasty. In a new study, supported by a five-year, $6.4 million grant from the Natio...

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National Center for Children’s Vision and Eye Health at Prevent Blindness Issues Call for Nominations for the 2021 Bonnie Strickland Champion for Children’s Vision Award Share Article Annual Prevent Blindness Award Recognizes Outstanding Efforts to Improve Eye Health Services for Children in the United States The NCCVEH has issued the call for nominations for the seventh annual “Bonnie Strickland Champion for Children’s Vision Award.” “With the Bonnie Strickland Champion for Childre...

Prevent Blindness Announces Recipients of 2021 Jenny Pomeroy Award for Excellence in Vision and Public Health, and Rising Visionary Award Share Article Prevent Blindness names R.V. Paul Chan, MD, MSc, MBA, FACS, at the Illinois Eye and Ear Infirmary, University of Illinois at Chicago, as the recipient of the “2021 Jenny Pomeroy Award for Excellence in Vision and Public Health.” And, Shervonne Poleon, Vision Science Graduate Program student, University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), as the...

Study finds that not all patients with elevated eye pressure need treatment to prevent vision loss More than 20 years after the launch of a landmark clinical trial, follow-up examinations and analyses found that not all patients with elevated eye pressure need pressure-lowering treatment to prevent vision loss from glaucoma. When the study was launched, it was universally accepted that all patients with elevated eye pressure should be given medication to lower that pressure. The Ocular Hyperten...