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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Two forms of laser vision correction sometimes used as an alternative to LASIK seem to have similar results for people with nearsightedness, a new research analysis finds. The findings, published in the journal Ophthalmology, confirm results from smaller studies suggesting that patients fare about as well with either of the procedures -- namely, photorefractive keratectomy (PRK) and ...

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. It worked in a first-stage study of 10 patients in Sweden, researchers reported Wednesday. And while larger ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists in Canada and Sweden have used laboratory-made biosynthetic corneas to restore vision to patients in a small human trial, and shown for the first time that they can help to repair damaged eye tissue. The scientists, whose work was published Wednesday in the Science Translational Medicine journal, said their findings offered hope for the millions of people ...

A teacher at a school for the blind in Japan has been arrested for allegedly stealing a woman's underpants from a laundromat while dressed in a miniskirt and wearing a blonde wig, police said Wednesday. Police later confiscated some 150 female garments, including more underwear and knee-high boots, from the home of Tsuyoshi Hirano, 43, a teacher at a ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Ulcers of the cornea -- the transparent front layer of the eye -- may be twice as common in the U.S. as previously thought, likely owing to the recent rise in contact lens use, suggests a new study. Based on more than a million people in northern California, researchers found that contact lens wearers were about 9 ...

Fox News Channel's Glenn Beck says he's been diagnosed with an eye disease that could eventually blind him. The conservative commentator told an audience attending his "American Revival" tour over the weekend in Salt Lake City that a doctor told ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A study of medical school graduates applying for ophthalmology residencies is the latest to show that some students may be tempted to doctor parts of their application to get ahead of the competition. "Ophthalmology is a very competitive field," Dr. Michael Wiggins, the study's author and the associate residency program director at the Jones Eye ...

Could a blind person drive a car? Researchers are trying to make that far-fetched notion a reality. The National Federation of the Blind and Virginia Tech plan to demonstrate a prototype vehicle next year equipped with technology that helps a blind person ...

Could a blind person drive a car? Researchers are trying to make that far-flung notion a reality. The National Federation of the Blind and Virginia Tech plan to demonstrate a prototype vehicle next year equipped with technology that helps a blind person drive a car ...

BOSTON (Reuters) - Italian doctors reported long-term success on Wednesday with a technique of fixing burn-related eye damage using corneas grown from stem cells. They used stem cells plucked from the thin ring around the iris to make a clear cornea that allowed vision for at least 10 years. Usually the cornea repairs itself using these cells from the limbus. But ...