| Castro cancer free, could govern again - doctor | | Posted Thursday, December 28, 2006 12:55:24 PM by Blog57 Team | | MADRID (Reuters) - A Spanish surgeon who has just examined Cuban leader Fidel Castro said on Tuesday he is making a good recovery from intestinal surgery, does not have cancer, and could return to governing his country. Castro's disappearance from the public eye after emergency surgery for intestinal bleeding in July sparked frenzied speculation about his health, but surgeon Jose Luis Garcia Sabrido said the communist leader was in good condition. "His physical activity is excellent, his intellectual activity intact, I'd say fantastic, he's recovering from his previous operation," Garcia Sabrido, head of surgery at Madrid's Gregorio Maranon public hospital, told a news conference after returning from Cuba. "He asks every day to return to work, but doctors advise him not to, to take it easy," said Garcia Sabrido.... | |
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| | | Lawyer: Genentech owes doctor | | Posted Saturday, November 11, 2006 3:02:08 PM by Blog57 Team | | Genentech Inc. owes more than $61 million to a Pennsylvania ophthalmologist who claims the company used his research to develop the drug Lucentis for degenerative eye disease, the doctor's lawyer told a jury. Genentech promised to pay Kourosh Dastgheib 1 percent of Lucentis sales before acquiring his research slides in 1995, attorney Raymond Niro said Tuesday in federal court in Philadelphia. Jurors deliberated about two hours before breaking until today. Dastgheib "had a theory and he proved the theory and he wrote about it and they went to him to get the theory," Niro said in closing arguments. "What's it worth to them, and what's its value?" Dastgheib sued in 2004, accusing Genentech of reneging on a promise to give him scientific recognition and royalty payments in exchange for microscope slides related to the incurable eye disease known as macular degeneration.... | |
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| | | Shopping for Eye Glasses? | | Posted Saturday, November 04, 2006 11:05:08 AM by Blog57 Team | | We spent over 27-billion dollars last year on eye care; most spent on glasses. There are lots of places for you to shop, but how do you know who is best? Consumer reports surveyed more than 90-thousand readers, and did some shopping. Picking out a new pair of glasses can be an ordeal. There are so many choices from the style to the type of lenses to coatings that are added on. Consumer reports national research center just published a survey of 92-thousand subscribers who had recently shopped for eyeglasses. Customer service, frame selection, and prices were all included in the survey. Donato Vaccaro, who oversaw the survey, did some comparison shopping, too? He says when it comes to customer service and the quality of glasses, most people were satisfied. But many were decidedly unhappy about the cost of the glasses.... | |
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| | | Queen skips races on doctor s orders | | Posted Saturday, October 28, 2006 10:59:26 AM by Blog57 Team | | LONDON: Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, normally in robust health even at the age of 80, scrapped a day at the races yesterday, 24 hours after making a rare withdrawal from a planned engagement because of a bad back. The sovereign, known for her love of racing, withdrew from an afternoon at Newmarket racecourse in eastern England on doctor's orders because of a strained muscle in her back. However during a visit to the Jockey Club yesterday she smiled and waved to the crowd. Dressed in a purple outfit, she got in and out of her car without help. "She appeared to enjoy herself and looked good," said a source at the club. Buckingham Palace has said there is "no cause for concern" but doctors have advised her to rest. The queen had to pull out of opening the new Emirates stadium of English Premiership football club Arsenal in north London on Thursday because of her injury, her 85-year-old husband Prince Philip deputising.... | |
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| | | German doctor struck off by GMC | | Posted Saturday, October 21, 2006 10:53:23 AM by Blog57 Team | | A German doctor who worked in practices around Scotland was struck off yesterday after a panel heard serious concerns about his English, his honesty and his medical skills. Dr Manfred Heinrich, who was employed as a locum in communities as far apart as Lanarkshire, the Highlands and Islay, did not appear to understand basic medical terminology, according to evidence submitted to the General Medical Council. One GP, Dr Adrian Baker, who observed Dr Heinrich, told the council he was so concerned by the doctor's assessment of patients he wondered whether he was qualified. In addition, the GMC found that during the nine months the locum saw patients in Scotland he did not have current indemnity insurance to cover compensation claims. The panel determined, given all the circumstances, removing his name was the only proportionate sanction to ensure the protection of patients.... | |
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| | | Weekend Eye: Reading Headaches For Jose | | Posted Monday, October 16, 2006 12:55:08 PM by Blog57 Team | | In many ways, Chelsea are a very lucky club. For a start, there was the fact that they were reportedly close to 'doing a Leeds' before Roman Abramovich turned up and handed them the key to his unlimited vault of cash, transforming them overnight into the dominant force in English football. However, Lady Luck is a fickle mistress and she has deserted them a few times in recent years, but even so, to lose two goalkeepers in one match is still a sign that someone up there really doesn't like you. .... | |
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| | | Diabetes can cause eye hemorrhages | | Posted Saturday, October 14, 2006 6:54:02 PM by Blog57 Team | | Question: I am a diabetic and have a small hemorrhage in my eye. My doctor sent me to a retinal surgeon to have it removed. What does the procedure entail? Monroe County has a very high incidence of diabetes, which often causes hemorrhages in the eye. Knowing the basic structure of the eye helps to understand the procedure. The eye is a hollow ball with a white shell around the outside and clear gel inside, which is known as vitreous. About three-quarters of the lining of the hollow ball is the retina, which is as strong as the skin between the layers of an onion. In order for a person to see, the vitreous gel must be clear and the retina must be in its proper place. If blood from a hemorrhage gets into the vitreous, it can obscure a person's vision. continued below .... | |
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| | | Medical Edge: See doctor to remove skin tags | | Posted Sunday, October 08, 2006 2:54:21 AM by Blog57 Team | | Skin tags are small, soft, flesh-colored growths that protrude from your skin. Because they are composed entirely of skin tissue, they are benign and certain to stay that way. The tags may be flat, slightly elevated or stick out from the skin (connected by stalks). They may grow over time and tend not to go away. Unlike a pimple, where inflamed tissue evokes an immune response and consequent repair, a skin tag signals no distress to the body simply because it is skin. Similarly, a skin tag is painless, unless it becomes irritated by the rubbing of clothing. Skin tags are caused by friction, which explains their occurrence in folds of the skin: in the groin area, under a breast, or in parts of the body where excess pounds form extra folds. Skin tags are more common in individuals at or beyond middle age, but that may just be the result of people's tendency to gain weight as they age.... | |
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| | | Cub partners with University Hospitals and CEO of Celtics | | Posted Sunday, October 01, 2006 10:56:04 AM by Blog57 Team | | Chicago Cubs first baseman Derrek Lee and Boston Celtics co-owner and CEO Wyc Grousbeck are partnering with a genetic testing laboratory in the University of Iowa's Carver College of Medicine to find a cure for a rare eye disease that causes children to go blind. Leber's congenital amaurosis, or LCA, is a genetic condition that has affected members of the Lee and Grousbeck families. Lee recently decided to cut his baseball season short to be with his family when he discovered his 3-year-old daughter, Jada, had LCA. "Seeing all the recent scientific progress up close has given us hope that treatments for LCA will not be too far away," Lee said in a prepared statement, "and we hope that our efforts will bring similar encouragement to lots of other families who have been affected by this condition." Called Project 3000, the group aims to raise money to genetically test everyone, or about 3,000 people, in the U.S.... | |
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| | | Hobart woman returns home after radical eye surgery | | Posted Sunday, September 24, 2006 10:56:23 AM by Blog57 Team | | A Hobart woman left blind and paralysed after a life-threatening reaction to antibiotics has returned from the first radical operation to restore some sight. Michelle Wylie had surgery in Singapore to remove one of her teeth and some surrounding jaw bone. It was then inserted under her eye. Later this year the material that has grown around the tooth, along with an artificial lens, will be implanted in her right eye. Mrs Wylie's husband Barry says the right eye was also operated on in preparation for the more radical procedure. "Michelle has had a fair chunk of lining of her mouth on the right hand side, that's been taken out and that has surgically been sewn over the right hand side of the eye," he said.... | |
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