| U.S. patients choosing Mexican hospitals for price, quality
When Carrollton resident Brian Woods needed laser eye surgery last year, he scrutinized options in North Texas for the best deal. McAllen resident Cesar Vega was concerned about the long wait he faced to treat his broken leg after a motorcycle accident during the weekend leading into the July 4 holiday. Both ended up in Monterrey, Mexico. Traditionally, the city affluent residents have traveled to Dallas, Houston or San Antonio for their medical needs. .
The guys who dived
Most of the guys are gone - Frenchy, Rosie, DeLucia, Pappy, even Swede, who was actually a Norwegian. Yeah, most of the guys are gone, which doesn't surprise any of them who are still left, any of the ones like Jim Kennedy. He's 83 now, hair all gone, hip pretty dicey, toting a heart that has had a valve replaced and arteries bypassed. But his eyes are clear and his memories laser sharp, sharp enough to carry him from his Littleton home and plunge him back 60 years to a time when all the guys were on a first-name basis with their own mortality. That can happen to a fella when he's sinking into cold blackness, tethered to life with tubes and ropes that probably feel as strong as noodles. But nobody ever said that being an Army Deep Sea Diver was supposed to be easy. That clearing harbors and rivers and canals the retreating German army had sabotaged and clotted with debris, or building bridges those same soldiers had destroyed - nobody ever said that was supposed to be a job for just anybody.
HEALTH HAPPENINGS
Send information about free or low-cost health-related events open to the public by noon Friday, eight days ahead of Saturday publication. Information can be mailed to the Bradenton Herald, P.O. Box 921, Bradenton, FL 34206, e-mailed to cwille@bradenton.com or faxed to 745-7097. Complete listings can be found at Bradenton.com. All addresses are Bradenton, unless otherwise noted. ANNOUNCEMENTS & DATED EVENTS Blood drives Florida Blood Services will hold the following blood drives, with donors receiving a wellness checkup including a cholesterol screening, a free T-shirt, two-for-one admission good for up to two free tickets to Pirate's Dinner Adventure in Orlando and more: • Hooters Full Moon Blood Drive, Aug. 11 from 11 a.m.-6 p.m.
Lincoln May Have Had Facial Defect
Artists, sculptors and photographers knew Abraham Lincoln's face had a good side. Now it's confirmed by science. Laser scans of two life masks, made from plaster casts of Lincoln's face, reveal the 16th president's unusual degree of facial asymmetry, according to a new study.
The left side of Lincoln's face was much smaller than the right, an aberration called cranial facial microsomia. The defect joins a long list of ailments _ including smallpox, heart illness and depression _ that modern doctors have diagnosed in Lincoln.
Lincoln's contemporaries noted his left eye at times drifted upward independently of his right eye, a condition now termed strabismus. Lincoln's smaller left eye socket may have displaced a muscle controlling vertical movement, said Dr. Ronald Fishman, who led the study published in the August issue of the Archives of Ophthalmology.
Death of Patriarch sparks new controversy
New disclosures about the surgery that led to the death of Teoctist, raise serious questions regarding the Patriarch's death. According to these new elements published in yesterday's edition of 'Ziua' daily, it seems the Patriarchpublished in issue 3997 page 3 at 2007-08-15Witness are the monks that prepared the Patriarch's body for burial and who noticed an incision of approximately 10 to 15 centimeters on his abdomen. According to the quoted daily, the Patriarch requested that the surgery be done by laser. Pious Nectarie, one of the ones that performed within the hospital premises the ritual before the burial, declared to 'Ziua' journalists that the incision on the Patriarch's abdomen was vertical and 10 to 15 centimeters long. The information was confirmed by His Holiness Varsanufie Prahoveanul, another person close to the Patriarch.
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