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Keratoconus Severity Affects Quality of Life at All Levels

Doctors have long collected surveys to assess the effect of disease on their patients’ ability to achieve a good quality…

Scleral Lenses Popular Among KC Community

For more than 50 years, if you asked someone with keratoconus about their contact lenses, chances are they were wearing…

A Case of Unilateral Keratoconus?

Cornea specialists published a consensus paper on the diagnosis of keratoconus in 2015 that included three characteristics of keratoconus.  Patients…

Webinar Rewind: A New Drug to Treat KC Investigated

Over 1,000 individuals tuned in to the July Evening Webinar or watched a recording of the presentation given by Dr.…

Keratoconus in Africa

NKCF hears from patients who sometimes have trouble finding contact lens solution: imagine that inconvenience on a permanent basis.  Living…

Breakthrough for Treatment of Severe KC

The journal Nature Biotechnology published exciting news of a bioengineered implant used in place of corneal transplants for treatment of…

NKCF Creates Down Syndrome Task Force

On August 18, fifteen eye care professionals held the first meeting of the Task Force on Down syndrome and Keratoconus,…

You clean your lenses every day – How often do you think about your lens case?

Originally published in NKCF Update September 2022. Contact lenses are a necessity for many keratoconus patients.  Aside from taking care…

Congratulations to OCULUS for 20 years on Keratoconus Diagnostic Technology!

Congratulations to our friends at OCULUS Optikgeräte GmbH - International for 20 years on the remarkable Pentacam® The Pentacam®is a…

In My Own Words: Sam Guttman finds his life with keratoconus comical

Meet Sam Guttman of Santa Rosa, California.  If you were to imagine a Renaissance man, you might picture someone like…