The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Glaukos Corporation’s Epioxa, offering patients living with a rare ...

Many eye banks won't accept corneas from donors with diabetes, concerned they might be harder to prepare for transplant ...

A secondary analysis from an earlier trial found that transplants from donors with diabetes had a higher failure rate and ...

A cornea transplant – also referred to as a corneal graft – can be used to improve sight, relieve pain and treat severe ...

Glaukos’ Epioxa allows cross-linking therapy for keratoconus without requiring an incision. The biotech expects to launch the ...

Social determinants of health affect whether a patient undergoes cross-linking or transplantation for keratoconus, according ...

Normally, your cornea — the clear outer lens or "windshield" of your eye — has a dome shape, like a ball. Sometimes, the structure isn’t strong enough to hold its round shape and bulges outward, like ...

Imagine correcting your vision in under a minute – no lasers, blades or pain. Scientists have developed a novel, non-invasive technique that reshapes the cornea using only a mild electric current and ...

An eye patient says his life has been put on hold because he is one of thousands of people waiting for a cornea transplant ...

Beckman said it is important to treat keratoconus with corneal collagen crosslinking early to prevent vision loss, although ...

When Brent Chapman was 13, he took ibuprofen during a Christmas basketball game. It was a drug he had taken before, but what happened next was anything but routine: He had a severe reaction that ...

Kaley Jones didn't know what hit her. She was just 17, sitting in her history class, when she realized she suddenly couldn't read what was written on the white board. Nor could she make out the faces ...