| WASHINGTON (AP) – Scientists have created a new kind of artificial cornea, inserting a sliver of collagen into the eye that coaxes its own natural corneal cells to regrow and restore vision.
BERLIN (Deutsche Presse-Agentur) -- When you are depressed, everything around you really does look grey, according to a team of German scientists who say that depression causes changes in vision.
NEW YORK (AP) -- A few months ago, Dr. Thomas Einhorn was treating a patient with a broken ankle that wouldn't heal, even with multiple surgeries. So he sought help from the man's own body.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Scientists are making progress in testing stem cells to treat a variety of diseases, but they're warning about clinics that push unproven treatments.
CHICAGO (AP) -- More than 70,000 children and teens go to the emergency room each year for injuries and complications from medical devices, and contact lenses are the leading culprit, the first detailed national estimate suggests.
NEW YORK, N.Y. (Canadian Press) -- Fox News Channel's Glenn Beck says he's been diagnosed with an eye disease that could eventually blind him.
PARIS (AP) -- A 35-year-old man with a genetic disorder has an entirely new face -- including tear ducts that cry, and a chin that sprouts stubble -- thanks to a rare full-face transplant performed by a French surgeon and hailed as a new advance in improving the lives of the disfigured.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. health officials have approved a first-of-its-kind technology to counter a leading cause of blindness in older adults -- a tiny telescope implanted inside the eye.
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Dozens of people who were blinded or otherwise suffered severe eye damage when they were splashed with caustic chemicals had their sight restored with transplants of their own stem cells - a stunning success for the burgeoning cell-therapy field, Italian researchers reported Wednesday.
HETAUDA, Nepal (AP) -- Raj Kaliya Dhanuk sits on a wooden bench, barefoot, with a tattered sari covering thin arms as rough as bark. Thick clear tears bleed from her eyes, milky saucers that stare at nothing.
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