| Renee Richards pens 2nd autobiography
Looking back on 32 years as a woman, Dr. Renee Richards has become comfortable talking about the transsexual surgery that gave her international notoriety and set her, at times, on an emotional roller coaster. "I've scaled many barriers - in medicine, on the tennis court and in the world," she said, walking in the terraced entranceway of her 1930s-era stone cottage that overlooks Boyd Corners Reservoir. She is flanked by her two large dogs - Travis, an Airedale terrier, and Midget, a Burmese mountain dog. A tabby cat scurries about, not stopping for an introduction. Richards has just written her second autobiography, "No Way Renee," with co-author John Ames, in which she talks about her 40-year career as an eye surgeon and her time as a professional tennis champion and coach to Martina Navratilova.
Is my child old enough to wear contact lenses?
The most common questions that eyecare professionals hear from parents is: At what age can children start wearing contact lenses? Is my child mature enough to wear contact lenses? A new research has showed that children of 8 to 12 can easily handle the responsibility of contact lenses just as well as their older peers. In the study, children and teenagers reported that it was much easier to engage in sports, dancing and other activities while wearing contact lenses. .
• An eye- and intellect-pleaser
It takes about a nanosecond to be drawn into the artistry of GroundWorks Dancetheater. No matter what these performers are doing, you can't help but focus on their daring embodiment of kinetic ideas. The company's program over the weekend in Cleveland Public Theatre's DanceWorks '07 series provided a feast for eyes and thought. There were world premieres by artistic director David Shimotakahara and guest choreographer Keely Garfield and the return of a celebrated work by Art Bridgman and Myrna Packer. Shimotakahara created "Nano" while recovering from knee surgery, which compelled him to alter his mode of operation. Usually, he sets a piece on himself and colleagues. Here, he called upon his dancers to assist in shaping the movement, with inspiration from Gustavo Aguilar's score for snare drum.
Wait time data a hodge podge, says medical alliance
OTTAWA — The provinces should standardize their hodge podge of wait-time definitions so the public can easily and clearly see whether promises of speedier health care are being kept, says an alliance of Canadian medical organizations. The standardization of wait-time definitions and criteria among provinces was the No. 1 recommendation in a report card on wait times issued Thursday by the Canadian Medical Association (CMA), a member of the Wait Time Alliance. The alliance issued its second report card in five months on wait times progress, giving governments a failing D grade for a promise of establishing a timetable of targets to meet wait-time benchmarks. The report gave a top grade of A for bypass surgery and radiation treatment, B for hip replacement and cataract surgery and C for knee replacement.
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