Mutual of America announced on November 17 that Kid One and its Transporting Children to Better Health program was named a Merit Finalist of the 2011 Community Partnership Award competition. EyeSight Foundation of Alabama provides grant support to Kid One for transporting children to vision appointm... Read More...

On September 15, 2011, Dr. Lanning B. Kline became the fifth recipient of the Visionary Award for his extraordinary leadership as Chairman of the UAB Department of Ophthalmology and the impact he has made on improving eyesight throughout the state and beyond through the Department's teaching, resear... Read More...

Technology developed to help telescopes peer through space is now helping specialists gain an unprecedented view of living cells within the eye. UAB's Yuhua Zhang developed the high-tech, high-resolution scope, and he tells UAB Magazine how the emerging technologyavailable at only five other centers... Read More...

Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind (AIDB) Birmingham Regional Center will conduct a summer camp for students, ages six to 13, who are blind/low vision. The Summer Chill Out will host 20 students who are visually impaired/blind from Blount, Chilton, Jefferson, Shelby, St. Clair and Walker Counties... Read More...

Each year, nearly 2,200 people are treated for eye trauma at the UAB Callahan Eye Hospital, the nations's first and only Level 1 ocular trauma center, as designated by the American Society of Ocular Traumas. "We're writing the book on eye trauma here in Birmingham," said Brian Spraberry, CEO of the... Read More...