| 'Killings mean funding' | | Posted Monday, January 29, 2007 2:55:07 PM by Blog57 Team | | IF OTHERS condemn and lament on the killing of some agrarian reform program beneficiaries in Negros, this is not so for Task Force Mapalad (TFM), said Alab Katipunan (AK) Secretary General Ben Solilapsi. "They (TFM) are perhaps rejoicing for it will mean additional funding for them," he added. Sun.Star Network Online's Sinulog Festival Coverage Post your Sinulog greetings Solilapsi told mediamen that the more there are reports of the killing of TFM members in pursuit of land ownership, the more funding will come from ECO, a funding agency from The Netherlands that supports TFM. He claimed though that the AK is also a group of peasants that condemned the killing of farmer-beneficiary Pepito Santillan and the wounding of two others in Hacienda Velez-Malaga, Barangay Robles, La Castellana town Wednesday last week.... | |
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| | | Artificial cornea offers new hope for blind patients | | Posted Friday, December 01, 2006 12:56:40 PM by Blog57 Team | | Washington, Nov. 14: US physicians have successfully operated for the first time on infants and children with a new version of an artificial implant that takes the place of the eye cornea. The results of the operations, conducted by physicians at the University of Rochester Eye Institute and a colleague at Johns Hopkins University, are being announced at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Ophthalmology in Las Vegas. The new work points to a new option for dramatically improving the vision of a group of people for whom traditional cornea transplants usually fail. It also mirrors similar success in adult patients. In the study, the physicians included 17 children who collectively had been through more than 100 surgical procedures, including 39 traditional cornea transplants that had failed.... | |
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| | | State schools have world-class honors colleges | | Posted Friday, November 10, 2006 6:58:47 PM by Blog57 Team | | Skyview High School alum Sariah Khormaee views the world through a different lens these days, and not because of her prior biomedical research on cornea repairs. She's studying brain therapy at England's Cambridge University, after graduating from the University of Washington in June with degrees in biochemistry and neurobiology. Included was a summer of creative writing and architecture studies in Italy, at UW's Rome center. Khormaee credits UW's research faculty and honors college for launching her cutting-edge career, boosted by prestigious graduate study scholarships. "It's on the level of Ivy League, without a doubt," she said of UW's biomedical and research programs. For high-performing science students, "At the end of the day, UW has all the opportunities you could want," she said.... | |
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| | | New technology for eye surgery | | Posted Friday, November 03, 2006 3:13:18 PM by Blog57 Team | | Chennai, Nov 1: Global eye health major Bausch and Lomb Eyecare has come out with a latest technology, which could significantly reduce post lasik surgery glare and night vision problems in cataract patients.Launching the Zyoptix Aspheric lasik technology at the famous Dr Agarwal Eye Hospital here, hospital's Joint Managing Director Dr Amar Agarwal told reporters that it had clinically proven to preserve the shape of the cornea and ensure better night vision.Given the large number of patients undergoing the lasik surgery in the country, the new technology would provide clear night vision and other low light vision problems, he said.The cost of the surgery would be around Rs,15,000 same as for lasik surgery, he said.He cautioned the people of Chennai against self medication for conjuctives, which had spread in the city after the onset of monsoon.... | |
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| | | World Health Organization and Partners Unveil New Coordinated Approach to Treat Millions Suffering From Neglected | | Posted Friday, October 27, 2006 10:56:59 AM by Blog57 Team | | WASHINGTON and GENEVA, Oct. 26 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- Today, the World Health Organization (WHO) and a group of more than 25 partner organizations unveiled a new strategy to fight some of the most neglected tropical diseases that destroy the lives and health of poor people. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20040610/CNTH001LOGO ) The approach contained in a newly published manual, Preventive Chemotherapy in Human Helminthiasis, focuses on how and when a set of low-cost or free drugs should be used in developing countries to control a set of diseases caused by worm infections. Preventive chemotherapy in this context means using drugs that are effective against a broad range of worm infections to simultaneously treat the four most common diseases caused by worms: river blindness (onchocerciasis), elephantiasis (lymphatic filariasis), schistosomiasis, and soil-transmitted helminthiasis.... | |
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| | | Surgery can reverse pet eye problem | | Posted Friday, October 20, 2006 2:54:58 PM by Blog57 Team | | Cataracts are very common in dogs. What pet owners often do not know is that the condition can be reversed with surgery to restore the animal's vision. Dr. Jesse Eichenbaum, a board certified veterinary ophthalmologist, said that in most instances, the cataracts can be removed. "Cataracts are very common in dogs," he said. "People don't realize that we can do surgery to help correct that." Eichenbaum said the most common cause of cataracts is a pre-existing genetic condition from improper breeding. But they are also the result of diabetes in older animals. Unfortunately, not every animal's cataracts can be removed. "Not every dog or cat can have surgery," Eichenbaum said. "Of course, the older they are, the more carefully we screen them. Most animals though, as long as their eyes don't have other diseases can have surgery." .... | |
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| | | New Nationwide Study Will Evaluate Effect Of Antioxidants And Fish Oil On Progression Of AMD | | Posted Friday, October 13, 2006 10:54:34 PM by Blog57 Team | | The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has announced a nationwide study to see if a modified combination of vitamins, minerals, and fish oil can further slow the progression of vision loss from AMD, the leading cause of vision loss in the United States for people over age 60. This new study, called the Age-Related Eye Disease Study 2 (AREDS2), will build upon results from the earlier Age-Related Eye Disease Study (AREDS). The original study results were released five years ago today. The study found that high-dose antioxidant vitamins and minerals (vitamins C and E, beta-carotene, zinc, and copper), taken by mouth, reduced the risk of progression to advanced AMD by 25 percent, and the risk of moderate vision loss by 19 percent. .... | |
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| | | How Herpes Infects Cornea, Evades Immune Cells, Shown By Study | | Posted Thursday, October 12, 2006 12:53:57 PM by Blog57 Team | | Herpes virus has an unusual strategy for infecting cornea cells that may also explain how it evades the immune system, according to a study by researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine. The study appears in the Sept. 25 issue of the Journal of Cell Biology. Both strains of the herpes virus -- HSV-1, the strain that causes cold sores on the mouth, and HSV-2, genital herpes -- can infect the cornea, the clear, domed surface that forms the eye's outermost layer. Ocular herpes is the leading cause of infectious blindness in the United States, with 50,000 new or recurring cases each year. In about one quarter of cases, the virus penetrates the first layer of the cornea to infect an inner layer, the stroma, making the disease much more difficult to treat.... | |
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| | | Actress Longoria falls down stairs | | Posted Saturday, October 07, 2006 6:56:28 AM by Blog57 Team | | Eva Longoria suffered badly-bruised ribs when she fell down the stairs of her trailer on the set of Desperate Housewives. The actress, who plays saucy Gabrielle Solis in the hit series, was taken to hospital after the accident on the show's set earlier this week. "Eva slipped on one of the stairs coming out of her trailer," her publicist Liza Anderson said. "Nothing is broken, but her ribs are very bruised." The 31-year-old actress will not need any time off for her injury. It was not the first time she has needed hospital treatment after an incident while filming. In August last year she had emergency attention after being hit in the head by a piece of equipment while shooting a scene on location. And in April this year fellow housewife Teri Hatcher suffered an eye injury when a light bulb exploded on set.... | |
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| | | Study Shows How Herpes Infects Cornea, Evades Immune Cells | | Posted Saturday, September 30, 2006 2:59:15 PM by Blog57 Team | | Herpes virus has an unusual strategy for infecting cornea cells that may also explain how it evades the immune system, according to a study by researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine. The study appears in the Sept. 25 issue of the Journal of Cell Biology. Both strains of the herpes virus -- HSV-1, the strain that causes cold sores on the mouth, and HSV-2, genital herpes -- can infect the cornea, the clear, domed surface that forms the eye's outermost layer. Ocular herpes is the leading cause of infectious blindness in the United States, with 50,000 new or recurring cases each year. In about one quarter of cases, the virus penetrates the first layer of the cornea to infect an inner layer, the stroma, making the disease much more difficult to treat.... | |
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