Free LASIK Surgery For Marines
University Hospitals in Cleveland is offering LASIK vision correction for free to local Marines.
Gino Vromelia, the director of UH's laser vision center, want to help the local Marines for their sacrifice in Iraq.
University Hospitals in Cleveland is offering LASIK vision correction for free to local Marines.
Gino Vromelia, the director of UH's laser vision center, want to help the local Marines for their sacrifice in Iraq.
We bring to you the best of the articles across Taragana Blog Network for the fortnight ending 20th November 2005. It was tougher than we thought as we had a hard-time creating a small list. Next time we will go for weekly schedule. This is our first attempt to highlight some of the posts which we think would be interesting to you and summarizes the important happenings across our blogs. Hope you like it.
Reports complete mapping of over 37K rice genomes.
Did you know that sweets can lower your physical and psychological stress?
Read about Andrew Stimpson's spontaneous cure from AIDS.
Meditation has been found to increase cortical thickness which translates to more brainpower.
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Epi-LASIK is a surface treatment procedure that provides options for patients who were previously not good candidates for LASIK.
Dr. Vikas Jain, Laser eye surgeon aged 38, in Newark, Ohio lost his license permanently for allegedly performing unnecessary laser eye surgery on 22 patients.
Edward Bailey, 65 lost the sight in his left eye caused by an accidental drop of caustic soda in his eye at work. After two unsuccessful corneal transplants, he underwent a pioneering stem cell operation that restored his vision.
saved by stem cell
Edward Bailey: “I am very optimistic that my eyesight will improve even more.”
This is the story of Edward Bailey.
He had multiple corneal transplant operations without success. Then Dr. Sheraz Daya, a specialist eye surgeon, explained him about the stem cell transplanting procedure.
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Dr. Wendell P. Wong, medical director and chief of LASIK Surgery at TLC Laser Eye Centers in Torrance, Calif., is renowned for his knowledge in the field of laser vision correction. In addition, his expertise includes the many critical health and safety areas affecting the eyes, including proper eye protection for sports and outdoor use, laser surgery, cataract removal, glaucoma screenings and lens implants. Wong suggests computer users follow these tips if they want to avoid eye strain and fatigue:
[Summarized with my humble commentary]
1. Give your eyes a break if you spend hours in front of a computer.
The Sankara Nethralaya, famous for eye treatment in India and recognised as an institute of national importance by the Union government, will launch a project for the treatment of diabetic retinopathy, an eye ailment linked with diabetes, in six districts of the Karnataka tomorrow.