| Doctor is one of a kind in Sparks
Four months ago, Northern Nevada Medical Center welcomed a physician whose roots in medicine go back well into the 1600s; it also granted the Sparks community a specialist it needed. "The area has been increasing in population, and there has been a void for a urologist," Dr. Arnaldo Trabucco said. "I am the only urologist in Sparks." Trabucco, whose contributions to the field of medicine include published journals and textbooks and innovative devices that help correct stress-induced urinary incontinence and treat kidney stones, opened the Urology Institute, LLC in April. "We are especially pleased to have Dr. Trabucco open the only urology practice in Sparks on the Northern Nevada Medical Center campus," said Brandt C. Wright, NNMC CEO. The institute is designed to treat the full spectrum of male and female urology ailments through traditional surgery, laser surgery, prostatitis, interstitial cystitis and procedures for prostate disorders and endourology.
Bausch & Lomb Posts $15M Profit
Bausch & Lomb Inc., which has agreed to a $3.67 billion buyout by a private equity firm, on Wednesday reported a $15 million profit in the second quarter on higher sales of contact lenses, eye-care medicines and lens cleaners. Rocked last year by the worldwide recall of a multipurpose lens solution, the eye-care products maker earned the equivalent of 27 cents a share. That compared with a loss of $15.1 million, or 28 cents a share, in last year's April-June quarter. Sales jumped 14 percent to $649.5 million from $571.5 million a year ago. Analysts surveyed by Thomson Financial were expecting a profit of 53 cents a share on sales of $614.6 million. The stock fell 6 cents, to $62.48. Contact lens sales grew 10 percent to $192.6 million, driven by higher sales of PureVision silicone hydrogel lenses.
Rick Ankiel’s wild ride
The most inspirational story of the 2007 baseball season is not a scientific marvel's methodical pursuit of a career home run record. The most improbable story of 2007 is not the rise of the Seattle Mariners, or the fall of the Oakland Athletics. The most inspirational, most improbable, most likely-to-be-dramatized-by-a-screenwriter story of 2007 concerns a 28-year-old center fielder for a last-place minor-league team in Memphis. Rick Ankiel was blessed with the precocious talent of Dwight Gooden and cursed by the mysterious mental block that turned Steve Blass from a Cy Young candidate at 30 into an ex-pitcher at 32. Three years removed from the mound, Ankiel has reinvented himself as a modern-day "Smoky" Joe Wood, who in 1918 converted into an outfielder after his arm went dead. "I'd hear fathers tell their kids, 'See that guy over there? That's 'Smoky' Joe Wood, used to be a great pitcher long ago,' " Wood told author Lawrence Ritter in 1966.
Despite sudden change, De La Hoya has a plan
When not in the ring himself, Oscar De La Hoya wants to be known as a hands-on promoter. True to his word, he came to Sacramento early so he could get personally involved with activities leading up to tonight's championship card at Arco Arena. What boxing's biggest attraction and the president of Golden Boy Promotions didn't anticipate, though, was a dilemma dropped into his lap two days before the card: figuring out a tiebreaker for the team aspect of the show. .
City woman believes to be suffering from electrical hypersensitivity
Joanne March-Laberge was supposed to be enjoying this phase of her life. A woman who loves people and the outdoors, March-Laberge, 48, was quite content to relax and enjoy all the things Corner Brook has to offer now that her daughter had moved on to university and she had no real direct commitments to speak of. Then suddenly, in November of last year, that carefree lifestyle she sought was abruptly taken away. March-Laberge believes she’s suffering from electrical hypersensitivity (EHS) — a chronic illness triggered by exposure to electromagnetic fields, which are waves of energy emitted by all electrical sources, power lines, appliances and radio/radar/microwave transmitters such as cellphones. Those who develop EHS have a physiological disorder characterized by neurological and idiopathic or allergy-type symptoms.
The Miami Herald
By Pablo Bachelet, pbachelet@MiamiHerald.com. July 18, 2007. WASHINGTON -- The State Department on Wednesday released more details of how Cuban authorities were preventing its mission in Havana from fulfilling its duties, citing containers being held up for a year and technical staff stopped from conducting needed repairs. The actions, according to the State Department, meant the U.S. Interests Section, which acts as an embassy since both nations do not have formal diplomatic relations, was falling behind in processing visas for Cubans wanting to leave the island. Cuba on Tuesday accused the Bush administration of deliberately handing out fewer visas to cause instability on the island. The foreign ministry said the State Department had issued fewer than 11,000 visas in the nine months ending June 30, well short of the 20,000 quota.
New LASIK Device Treats Differing Vision Problems
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first LASIK device designed to treat one eye to see far-away objects and the other eye to see things that are close up. The CustomVue Monovision device is designed to correct all nearsightedness in the dominant eye and only part of the nearsightedness in the other eye, the agency said. This allows use of the fully corrected eye for distance, and the partially corrected eye for objects that are close. People considering the surgery should wear specially designed contact lenses to monitor how they respond to having one eye's vision under-corrected, the FDA said. LASIK vision correction involves cutting a flap in the outer layers of the cornea, removing a small amount of tissue beneath it with a laser, then replacing the flap.
DENTISTRY IN THE 20TH CENTURY
1900 - Fifty-seven dental schools exist. 1905 - Alfred Einhorn, a German chemist, formulates the local anesthetic procain, later marketed under the trade name Novocain. 1907 - William Taggart invents a "lost wax" casting machine, allowing dentists to make precision cast fillings. 1910 - The first formal training program for dental nurses is established at the Ohio College of Dental Surgery. The program is discontinued in 1914 mainly due to opposition by Ohio dentists. 1924 - American Dental Assistants Association is founded by Juliette Southard and her female colleagues. 1930 - The American Board of Orthodontics, the world's first dental specialty board, is founded. 1930-1943 - Frederick S. McKay, a Colorado dentist, is convinced that brown stains (mottling) on his patients' teeth are related to their water supply.
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