| Calling Ms. Cleo
A Wisconsin fire marshall was placed on administrative leave after using department computers to contact psychics. Guess he didn't see that one coming.
Meat-eaters love animals too
A man was put on probation after being caught having sex with a dead deer, his second infractionfor having sex with a dead animal. When reached for comment, the man said, "What do you expect me to do, have sex with a live deer?"
Monsieur, Arrest that Panzer!
A French tourist recently outsmarted a Dutch bag-snatcher when the would-be mugger chased him into a police station. The Frenchman was held up as a shining example of a French retreat actually amounting to something.
Four-eyes is better than no eyes
Two Chinese brothers posing as eye doctors misperformed laser cataract treatments resulting in nine victims contracting infections that required their eyes to be removed.
Report on botched eye camp submitted
Imphal, March 30: A committee of senior opthalmologists that probed the botched eye camp at Bishnupur which resulted in the loss of eye sights of five persons has submitted its report to the State Government.
Officials sources informed The Sangai Express that the sealed report was submitted to the State Health Secretary P Vaiphei on March 28.The tragic eye camp during which 16 patients were operated upon for cataract was held at Bishnupur district hospital on February 23 under the aegis of the District Blindness Control Society.
The cataract operations were conducted by a team of doctors including Dr P Binata, Dr Kh Rajendro and Dr RK Bidyarani.
The camp was conducted under the overall supervision of Dr Y Yaima who is also the State Programme Officer of the Manipur Blindness Control Society.
Popularity of LASIK Helping to Drive World Refractive Vision ...
NEW YORK, April 6 /PRNewswire/ -- The popularity of laser vision correction coupled with newer technologies, such as bladeless LASIK and phakic intraocular lens implants, are setting the stage for tremendous worldwide growth in the refractive vision correction market, driving sales from $1.3 billion in 2006 to an estimated $4.5 billion in 2009, according to Refractive Vision Correction Worldwide: A Market Analysis, a new industry analysis from market research firm Kalorama Information. With the combination of a rapidly aging population, increasing incidence of myopia and presbyopia, underserved world markets and .
Clouding can follow laser eye treatment
Laser-based vision correction, such as LASIK, usually results in greatly improved visual acuity, but occasionally it can be followed by a clouding in the center of the cornea and poorer vision. Fortunately, the corneal opacification resolves on its own within a matter of months, according to two ophthalmologists in Los Angeles, and the related vision problem is safely reversed with a repeat laser treatment. Dr Baris Sonmez from the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and Dr Robert K Maloney from the Maloney Vision Institute describe their experience with what they term "central toxic keratopathy" following laser refractive surgery in the American Journal of Ophthalmology. The eye specialists note that such cases have been reported since 1998. To better characterise the condition, Sonmez and Maloney reviewed the charts and clinical photographs of 14 affected patients they had treated.
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