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A month ago Larry Hester became the first person in North Carolina to receive a bionic eye.  Blind since the age of 30, Hester, who has been treated at the Duke Eye Center, is now learning how

SINCE THE SPRING OF 2012, Cole Reisdorf will never see some of his favorite toys – skateboards and NERF® guns – in the same light.

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Duke Eye Center Faculty members, P. Vasantha Rao, PhD, and Pratap Challa, MD, and a third-year Duke medical student Emily Davies have received awards from Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB).

Will Forte, writer, producer and cast member of NBC's "Saturday Night Live," announced the establishment of a medical student research fellowship in the field of stem cell biology at the amphitheat

The Duke Eye Center's Winston-Salem office recently received a patient advocacy award during Duke's National Patient Advocacy week.

Sanjay Asrani, MD, in the Glaucoma Service, has been promoted to associate professor of ophthalmology. Asrani arrived at the Eye Center in July 1997 as a resident.

DURHAM, NC — A severe allergic reaction to a medication robbed Elma Phifer of her vision two decades ago when she was 39.

Durham, NC — Researchers at the Duke University Medical Center and the Vanderbilt University Medical Center have pinpointed the first major gene that determines an individual's risk for developing

DURHAM, N.C.