Madelyn Beck

The laws violate the state constitution, which protects individuals’ rights to make their own health care decisions, Judge Melissa Owens concluded.

A Teton County judge on Monday struck down Wyoming’s two abortion bans, ruling they violate the state constitution.

Corneas, the windshields of the eye, are the most transplanted part of the human body. But four former employees at Rocky Mountain Lions Eye Bank told of numerous retrieval problems, including damage to eyes and removal from the wrong body.

William Lopez remembers clearly the day in June 2017 when he says he was asked to call the spouse of a college friend who had just died and ask for her eyes.

'We don't believe that we've proven ourselves to be not capable of regulating ourselves'

William Lopez remembers clearly the day in June 2017 when he says he was asked to call the spouse of a college friend who had just died and ask for her eyes.

KFF Health News Colorado teamed up with WyoFile over the last eight months to investigate the little-known eye and tissue donation industry through the lens of the eye bank that collects most of the donated eye tissue in Colorado and Wyoming. What they found is that tissue donations are guided by very different rules than organ donations.

William Lopez remembers clearly the day in June 2017 when he says he was asked to call the spouse of a college friend who had just died and ask for her eyes.

William Lopez remembers clearly the day in June 2017 when he says he was asked to call the spouse of a college friend who had just died and ask for

A U.S. district court held a hearing Tuesday to get a status on the pending case, but counsel for the plaintiffs had few details for the court.