| LASIK eye surgery for older adults
A new University of Illinois at Chicago study appearing in the online edition of the journal Ophthalmology reports on the safety, efficacy and predictability of laser eye surgery (laser in situ keratomileusis or LASIK) in patients 40-69 years old. "We are seeing an increasing demand for LASIK surgery for older adults, who present special challenges," said study co-author Dr. Dimitri Azar, Field chair of ophthalmologic research at UIC. In LASIK surgery, adjustments in correction are routinely made to compensate for the cornea's strong healing responses in younger patients, Azar said. Increased age has been previously associated with poorer final clarity of vision, as measured on an eye chart (visual acuity). "We were able to show that fine adjustments in the correction to the cornea in our older patients that compensate for differences in age-related healing resulted in reliable predictability of correction," said Azar, who is also professor and head of the UIC department of ophthalmology and visual sciences.
Assistant Proffessor Receives $200000 Award
"This award will allow our department to expand our research efforts in new directions and gain understanding of blinding diseases that affect premature infants and ocular complications of diabetes," Raisler said.RPB Career Development Awards help recruit young M.D.s and/or Ph.D.s to eye research as well as to support promising junior ophthalmology faculty. .
Politicians should work for academics betterment: Agre
LAHORE: Politicians should work for the welfare of scientists and academics across the world, as no country can progress without scientists and researchers, Nobel laureate Prof Peter Agre said on Saturday.
He was delivering a lecture at the University of Health Sciences (UHS) on the Aquaporin Water Channels. Prof Agre is currently Duke University School of Medicine vice chancellor.
He was awarded the Nobel prize in chemistry in 2003 for discovering the aquaporins, the membrane water channels that play a vital role in controlling the water contents of cells. More than 10 kinds of aquaporins have been found in human body, and several diseases, such as congenital cataract and nephrogenic diabetes insipidus, are connected to the impaired function of these channels.
Posterior lamellar keratoplasty shows efficacy for treating ...
Microkeratome-assisted posterior lamellar keratoplasty can be used as an alternative to penetrating keratoplasty for treating patients with pseudophakic or aphakic corneal edema, according to a small study by researchers in Iran. Hasan Hashemi, MD, and colleagues at Tehran Medical Science University reviewed outcomes for 10 patients treated for corneal edema. Nine patients were pseudophakic and one patient was aphakic, according to the study. In all cases, surgeons used an automated microkeratome to create 130-µm to 250-µm thick nasal hinged corneal flaps. They then exchanged the underlying 7 mm of deep stroma and endothelium with a similarly sized donor graft fixated without sutures. Surgeons closed the corneal flap using sutures, which were removed 3 to 5 months postop, according to the study.
7 Great Careers for 2007
If someone asked me which careers were best, I wouldn't cop out and simply say, "It's a matter of what fits you." But here are seven careers that I believe, for many college-educated people, provide an ideal combination of money, status, sense of fulfillment and good quality of life, and have good job market prospects for the foreseeable future. Orthodontist. It's one of the few medical specialties in which self-employment remains a possibility, and the average self-employed orthodontist earns more than $200,000 a year. Also, you develop a long-term relationship with most of your patients. And, at the end of treatment, you've succeeded with nearly all -- they walk out with a better smile. For more information, see the American Association of Orthodontists' Web site or William Proffit's book, Contemporary Orthodontics, fourth edition.
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