RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- Though face coverings are a necessary tool to prevent the spread of COVID-19, doctors warned they might be causing an eye condition.

An Arkansas man who lost his eye and half his face in a work-related electrocution accident has received the world's first whole-eye transplant. And he may even see out of it one day.

The military veteran and Arkansas resident lost much of the left side of his face—including his left eye—to severely disfiguring electrical burns that also destroyed his left arm.

In May of 2023, Aaron James, an electrical lineman, had the first partial face transplant to include an eye. A year after the procedure, there haven’t been signs of rejection, and there is blood ...

Face and cornea transplants have been performed before, yet to the NYU Langone team’s knowledge, this is the first time a whole eye has been transplanted successfully (with or without a face ...

While working as a lineman two years ago, Aaron James, 46, was electrocuted and lost half his face. In a ground-breaking surgery, the first of its kind in the world, doctors at NYU Langone Health ...