| The Good Laser | | Posted Saturday, January 13, 2007 12:56:57 PM by Blog57 Team | | January 13, 2007: For all practical purposes, the U.S. Department of Defense has made laser eye surgery a free fringe benefit. For example, the U.S. Air Force has a major laser eye surgery facility at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas, where any member of the military can walk in and get the procedure. Over the last three years, the military has found that about 85 percent of their eyeglass wearing personnel can benefit from laser eye surgery, and 96 percent of those who get the surgery end up with 20/20, or better, vision. This procedure is considered a good investment, as troops who no longer have to wear glasses are much better off. Every soldier knows what a hassle eyeglasses can be in combat, because they get a taste of it in basic training. The running and jumping, the dust, explosions and general chaos often send eyeglasses flying, or leave them damaged.... | |
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| | | Regional panel rejects North Stafford eye surgery center | | Posted Sunday, November 12, 2006 7:05:46 AM by Blog57 Team | | Proposed eye surgery center rejected by regional review agency By JIM HALL Date published: 11/8/2006 p { font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; text-decoration: none; color: #000000; text-align: justify; background-color: transparent } By JIM HALL A regional health planning agency yesterday rejected a proposed outpatient eye surgery center for North Stafford. The board of directors of the Northwestern Virginia Health Systems Agency, meeting in Culpeper, voted 17-3 to recommend denial of a plan offered by Dr. Amos Willis and Dr. Thomas Falkenberg, longtime Stafford County ophthalmologists. Board members said they did not want to recommend approval of another operating room when the region is about to get 12 new rooms.... | |
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| | | Laser eye surgeon accused of substandard care | | Posted Sunday, November 05, 2006 3:01:30 AM by Blog57 Team | | A doctor who works for a national eye-surgery chain has been accused of giving poor treatment to Iowa patients. Dr. Carmen Foster is an ophthalmologist who performs surgery at the TLC Laser Eye Center in Robins, which is near Cedar Rapids. The Iowa Board of Medical Examiners, which licenses physicians, has accused Foster of failing to meet minimum standards of care and of engaging in practice harmful or detrimental to the public, according to documents released Thursday. The company says it has more than 70 eye-surgery centers across the country. The Robins office is the only one listed in Iowa, and its Web site lists Foster as the offices sole physician. The site says Foster is part of an elite group of laser surgeons who have been handpicked by TLC for their clinical excellence and commitment to outstanding patient care.... | |
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| | | Ray Warren fighting to save his vision | | Posted Sunday, October 22, 2006 2:54:03 AM by Blog57 Team | | Renowned sports commentator Ray Warren has revealed he will soon undergo surgery to save vision in his right eye. The veteran Network Nine rugby league and swimming caller admitted he had lost 70 per cent of the vision in his right eye and had been forced to rely on help from co-commentator Peter Sterling to get through the 2006 NRL season. Warren said he will undergo surgery in the coming weeks to correct the problem with Andrew Voss assuming commentating duties for the Tri-Nations series. "I've had the most difficult year of all trying to get through it, and I suppose I've relied on experience more than ever this year because of this eye problem," Warren told Sydney radio 2KY. "The doctor told me on Monday within 12 months I wouldn't have any sight in my right eye at all (without the operation).... | |
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| | | Lasik Laser Eye Surgery may be safer than Contacts | | Posted Friday, October 20, 2006 12:54:12 PM by Blog57 Team | | According to an Oregon Health & Science University Casey Eye Institute physician laser eye surgery is safer than wearing contact lenses for correcting vision problems. William Mathers, M.D., professor of ophthalmology in the OHSU School of Medicine reported his findings of reviewing data from a number of recent studies in today's issue of Archives of Ophthalmology. Laser vision correction surgery is also called “refractive" surgery, and is also known as lasik eye surgery. The surgery is conducted by using a laser to resurface the eye to change it's shape to correct loss in vision. "Several times a year, I have patients who lose eyes from complications because they've been wearing contacts and they've gotten an infection. By this I mean their eyes have to be physically removed from their bodies," said Mathers who is an eye surgeon with a strong background in contact lens issues and also the former president of the Contact Lens Association of Ophthalmologists.... | |
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| | | Oregon researchers finds laser surgery safer than contacts | | Posted Sunday, October 15, 2006 10:54:58 AM by Blog57 Team | | A doctor at Oregon Health & Science University Casey Eye Institute has been reviewing studies on lasik eye surgery and the wearing of contacts and he's found that the new laser surgery may be as safe or safer than wearing contacts. Dr. William Mathers is a professor of ophthalmology at the school who reviewed several large, peer-reviewed studies and found a greater chance of suffering vision loss from contact lenses than from laser surgery, also known as "refractive" surgery. His findings are published in a letter in the Archives of Ophthalmology. "Several times a year, I have patients who lose eyes from complications because they've been wearing contacts and they've gotten an infection. By this I mean their eyes have to be physically removed from their bodies," said Mathers, an eye surgeon.... | |
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| | | Exacting precision | | Posted Sunday, October 08, 2006 6:56:31 PM by Blog57 Team | | Imagine a world where doctors could perform precise surgery without scarring or pain, destroy cancer cells like in the video game Space Invaders and where the terrifying whine of the dentists drill would be little more than a distant memory. According to MU engineers, that world is just around the corner. First, let us talk a little about lasers. The word laser is an acronym for the phrase light amplified by the stimulated emission of radiation. A laser is a device in which atoms are energized, or pumped, until their electrons reach an excited state. Although the electrons are excited, they want to return to a low-energy state. When they do, the electrons release their excess energy in the form of a photon, a particle of light. As the electrons release photons, those photons interact with other electrons and cause them to lose their energy and release even more photons.... | |
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| | | LCA-Vision's President Hassey Resigns | | Posted Monday, October 02, 2006 2:54:27 AM by Blog57 Team | | LCA-Vision Inc., which provides laser vision eye surgery under the LasikPlus brand, on Friday said President Kevin Hassey resigned, effective Oct. 6. No reason was given for Hassey's departure in a prepared statement. Hassey, 49, joined the company in August 2003 and helped oversee revenue growth from $62 million in 2002 to $190 million in 2005. He also helped oversee the opening of about 30 new laser centers, helped expand the company's managed care business and worked to develop marketing initiatives. "He helped shape the strategies that have led to the success of LCA-Vision over the past several years, and was a finalist for the CEO position prior to his decision to leave the company," said Chairman Tony Woods. Company spokeswoman Patricia Forsythe said LCA-Vision has not finalized a replacement chief executive for Stephen Joffe, who stepped down in March.... | |
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| | | Hospital obtains unique eye equipment with EU help | | Posted Monday, September 25, 2006 6:54:56 AM by Blog57 Team | | Prague, Sept 21 (CTK) - The Motol Teaching Hospital in Prague has obtained two unique eye surgery devices with the help of the European Union, the daily Mlada fronta Dnes reported Thursday. Young eye surgeons will train on the equipment. For patients it means that when they decide to undergo an eye operation they can be certain that it is performed by experts, the paper says. "These devices are unique in Eastern Europe," said Jan Tichy, commercial director of the Erilens company, which brought the equipment to the Czech Republic. Virtual operations that eye doctors will perform on the new devices will give them general practice training, the paper says. "One of the devices is called Pix Eyes and serves for the training of the treatment of the retina and the correct use of a laser.... | |
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| | | Uganda: 300 to Benefit From Eye Surgery | | Posted Monday, September 18, 2006 2:59:07 AM by Blog57 Team | | THE Governor of the Lions Club, District 411B comprising Uganda and Tanzania, Mr Hashim Kasim Nkya, has donated $15, 000 (about Shs20 million) to facilitate a mass eye surgery in the West Nile region. The money will benefit 300 residents with visual impairments in the districts of Arua, Yumbe, Moyo and Adjumani, Mr Tom Aliti Candia, the club's zonal chairman for the region, announced on September 8. "The eye operations in Arua will begin around November and we would have covered all the 300 cases in West Nile by March next year," Candia said. .... | |
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