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Cornea donation helps glaucoma patients too
Thursday, July 3, 2025
Some glaucoma tube shunt surgeries utilize corneal tissue recovered, evaluated, and distributed by Iowa Lions Eye Bank

Ex-Creighton basketball star grateful for his vision
Tuesday, May 13, 2025
Tyler McKinney was a junior and the starting point guard for Creighton University’s men’s basketball team in late 2003 when he was sidelined with an eye infection called acanthamoeba keratitis.
McKinney isn’t sure how he contracted the infection in his right eye, but his best guess is that it happened when he was in Canada during a preseason basketball trip.







Former EyeNet Ham Radio Operator Reminisces About His Work
Thursday, April 3, 2025
In 1962, Ted Hunter and Alson E. Braley created the Eye Bank Network, utilizing ham radio operators to coordinate the exchange of donor eye tissue between eye banks in the United States. The two recruited George Carsner to participate.
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