You Can Donate Your Eyes To Research Too
Friday, July 12, 2013 - 12:40
in Health & Medicine
Far more people are willing to donate their eyes to research than actually are registered to donate, according to a paper in Current Eye Research. While demand for tissue remains high, the number of human eyes donated for research declined 28 percent between 1997 and 2004, said Andrew Williams, a third-year Michigan State University College of Human Medicine student. Of roughly 200 patients with eye diseases surveyed in the study, 90 percent said they were willing to donate their eyes. read more