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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 National Eye Institute of the National Institutes of Health, researchers from Case Western Reserve Univer...

Highlights of Recent Positive Data from Nyxol's Phase 3 Registration Trial Roundtable Discussion by 3 KOLs with Unique Perspectives and Distinct Patient ...

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 Children’s Vision Award, we continue that mission by recognizing the amazing efforts of those today who w...

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 2021 Rising Visionary Award recipient. Prevent Blindness names R.V. Paul Chan, MD, Illinois Eye & E...

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 Hypertension Treatment Study -; funded by the National Eye Institute of the National Institutes of Health (N...