| Eye surgery center now accepting patients
DECATUR - Macon County Eye Center has a new and improved neighbor.Advanced Eye Surgery and Laser Center LLC recently has opened directly behind Macon County Eye Center as a new facility that performs outpatient eye procedures, including advanced cataract surgery, eyelid surgery, glaucoma surgery and laser treatments, Lasik corrective vision surgery and more.The mission of building the surgery center was to provide patients with a more convenient and economical alternative for eye surgeries, said Dr. Sushant Sinha, physician and medical director of both centers."We realized one inconvenience for our elderly patients, which is the majority of our patients, was going to the hospital, getting very confused and walking across a big parking lot," Sinha said. "We want to provide the utmost care and create a friendly, convenient and reliable facility."Previously, patients had to go to Decatur Memorial Hospital or Central Illinois Surgery Center for cataract surgery, said Dawn Followell, clinic administrator of Macon County Eye Center.
A feast for the eye
While sitting in the waiting room of the Jacksonville Eye Center in Riverside, 21-year-old Richard London saw a side of his mother hed never seen before, specifically, the inside of her cornea. The amazing images displayed on a 52-inch LCD monitor, while in a nearby room Dr. Robert Schnipper peered through microscopes and used computer-controlled lasers to restore Rhoda Londons sight through the most advanced lasik techniques available. Its amazing how you can improve your vision like that, the son said with an intense gaze. You cant do that with anything else, like hearing. But London wasnt the first person to watch Schnipper in action. In fact, Schnipper and his colleague, Dr. Senthil Krishnasamy, host monthly live surgeries where potential patients, family and friends or those who just want to see something extraordinary, can watch a lasik surgery and decide if its the right way to correct their vision.
Regional agency helps blind stay independent
PLATTSBURGH "" Dolores Bradley enjoys a relaxing afternoon in front of the television with one of her favorite shows, "Murder She Wrote," playing. She can't visually follow the antics of super sleuth Jessica Fletcher in the popular TV series from the 1980s, but she listens intently to every clue uncovered by actress Angela Lansbury's character. Dolores suffers from macular degeneration and is legally blind. She describes her vision as like wearing glasses covered with a thick layer of Vaseline, but that has done nothing to impact her need for independence. "I love my children dearly, but I will not live with any of them," said the 80-year-old mother of four. "I like my freedom." Dolores, a retired history teacher of 34 years from New Jersey, moved to the North Country with her husband, Joseph, for their retirement years.
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.
Bausch & Lomb Puts Takeover Bid on Ice
Bausch & Lomb Inc. told eye-care products rival Advanced Medical Optics Inc. on Tuesday it needs to improve its takeover offer to compete with a $3.67 billion cash bid by a private equity firm. Unless Advanced Medical provides extra assurances about the "value and certainty of consummation" of its $4.2 billion cash-and-stock bid, the board of Bausch & Lomb said the offer "would not be likely to result in a superior proposal." It gave the Santa Ana, Calif.-based company until midday Friday to make revisions to its offer. Warburg Pincus, a buyout and venture capital firm in New York, won an agreement from Bausch & Lomb's board in mid-May to pay $65 a share for the 154-year-old maker of contact lenses, ophthalmic drugs and vision-correction surgical instruments.
Three men in a boat (to say nothing of me and my nose)
In some far away time, around April, I was asked if I would be interested in sailing in the Volkswagen Touareg King of Cowes Race. Unfortunately, like quite a few others in my line of work, I tend to express an interest in pretty much everything – well it would be rude not to. Then, later, if I am feeling particularly discerning, I manage to say: "No thanks, I don’t think I can manage to compete in an iron man charity triathlon this week." With zero sailing experience, I imagined that the organisers would probably expect me to have some pictures taken with beefy sailors and then on the day I would be one of 20 or so people on a huge boat, wearing a lifebelt wandering around below deck making tea for people. I had never been to Cowes Week properly and thought it would be a great way to see what the fuss is about.
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