Six years ago, Dr. Joseph Dello Russo founded online Lasik FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions) web site in order to provide answers to the most common questions that trouble Lasik patients and surgery candidates. It has since become one of the most popular Lasik information websites, currently serving 50,000 visitors each month -- traffic has tripled since January 2007. .

Add a lopsided face to list of Lincoln's ailments

CHICAGO – Artists, sculptors and photographers knew Abraham Lincoln's face had a good side. Now it's been 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.

Bausch & Lomb posts $15 million 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.Pharmaceuticals sales surged 25 percent, lifted by higher sales of prescription eye drops Lotemax, ocular vitamins and drug delivery implants, and lens care revenues rose 12 percent to $116 million.

ORLive Presents: Diabetic Vitrectomy Surgery Lessens the Damage to Retinal Blood Vessels

Shawnee Mission Medical Center will showcase a procedure that can repair damaged blood vessels in the retinal during a live surgery Webcast on www.OR-Live.com on September 20 at 7 PM CDT. Ophthalmologist/Retina Specialist David S. Dyer, MD, of Retina Associates, will perform a procedure known as diabetic vitrectomy, which lessens the damage that may have occurred due to diabetic retinopathy, a condition that damages the blood vessels in the eye.

Diabetic retinopathy is the leading cause of blindness in American adults and is the most common diabetic eye disease. Close to fifty percent of people with diabetes have some degree of diabetic retinopathy. These blood vessels are often affected by the high blood sugar levels associated with the disease.

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Dr. Sanderson, DMD, First Dentist To Offer Teeth In An Hour Procedure In Alabama, USA

Dr. Sanderson, DMD, First Dentist To Offer Teeth In An Hour Procedure In Alabama, USA Main Category: Dentistry News
Article Date: 10 Aug 2007 - 2:00 PDT

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