Story Ideas
Looking for a vision or transplant-related news story? Here are some ideas that might get you started:

• Gift of Sight Gives Hope to Transplant Recipients: HLEB restores sight to 5 people a day by providing corneas for transplant to surgeons.
• 100 Years of Cornea Transplantation: In 2005, the eye banking community will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the first corneal transplant done in 1905.
• Triathletes Race For Sight: Triathletes from all over the country will race in the third annual Ultramax Triathlon in Kansas City on September 25, 2004 to raise funds for the Missouri Lions Eye Research Foundation.
• Cornea Donors Aid in Fight Against Blindness: Donor tissue is utlized in many ocular research projects throughout that nation that seek to find cures for blinding eye disease.

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