| Over 40? LASIK Eye Surgery Succeeds
April 20, 2007 -- More and more baby boomers are having laser eye surgery to free themselves from contacts, bifocals, and even reading glasses. Now new research finds that most can expect good outcomes when they have realistic expectations. "Patients 40 and over present special challenges, and they need to understand that going in," laser surgeon Jose de la Cruz Napoli, MD, tells WebMD. "But we have [surgical] options to give them full vision correction, so they can see well near and far away." Along with colleagues from the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and Harvard Medical School, de la Cruz Napoli examined outcomes from 710 eyes which had laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis (LASIK) surgeries performed on 424 patients between the ages of 40 and 69. Following the surgeries, 20/30 vision (a person with 20/30 vision can see something clearly at 20 feet what a person with 20/20 person can see at 30 feet.) was restored in 86% to 100% of eyes corrected for nearsightedness and 80% to 84% of eyes corrected for farsightedness.
Repeat traffic offender chargedin collision that killed deputy
GOOSE CREEK - A driver with so many infractions on his record that the state considers him a habitual offender is charged in a head-on collision Sunday that fatally injured an off-duty Berkeley County sheriff's deputy. Michael Edward Murray, 33, of Goose Creek, shouldn't have been driving because his license was suspended last year until 2011 for being a habitual offender, according to his 10-year driver's record on file with the S.C. Department of Motor Vehicles. Goose Creek police said Murray was driving a van that crossed the center line of North Rhett Extension around 10:12 a.m. Sunday and hit a southbound Mustang driven by sheriff's Deputy Dawn Tillman. A group of 40 or 50 deputies and dispatchers kept vigil at Trident Medical Center after the wreck.
The Best Growth Stocks
But to actually identify the best growth stocks, you have to take a step beyond looking for the companies with the highest projected growth rates. After all, if the market starts to lose faith in the company's prospects, the fall can be horrendous. So, we can establish that the best growth stocks offer both huge upside potential and a margin of safety. As such, they should satisfy three conditions. 1. A good growth rate
All else being equal, fast growth is better than slow growth. But because of compounding, even relatively small changes in the growth rate can mean a big difference to investors. Over the past 10 years, Liz Claiborne (NYSE: LIZ) has grown its revenue by roughly 8.5% annually. Urban Outfitters (Nasdaq: URBN), on the other hand, grew its revenue at an impressive 22.9% rate.
How turning capitalism into equality can mean profit for all
I believe the challenge for the 21st century will be how to democratise commerce. If you think about it carefully, 80 per cent of humanity, or five billion people, have been below the radar screen of organised business, especially large businesses, be they domestic or global companies. At the same time, with the democratising of various countries, people want to join and get the benefits of globalisation. They want to be both global consumers and producers. They are certainly micro-consumers because they are not rich. That is the reason why they have been excluded from the opportunities of being a good consumer. At the same time, they have also been excluded from participating in the global marketplace because they are micro-producers. They produce in very small quantities, mostly in villages and in difficult-to-access markets.
Cochlear Implantation Increases Meningitis Risk
Confirming what physicians have long speculated, a new study published in the April edition of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery determines that the presence of cochlear implants increases the risk of bacterial infections that can cause meningitis in recipients.
The discovery increases the need to educate the public on the need for meningitis vaccinations in potential cochlear implant recipients.
The study involved making cochleostomy incisions (opening of the inner ear spaces of the cochlea the most important moment in the procedure) in the ears of 54 healthy rats, implanting cochlear devices in 36 of them, and then monitoring them for the presence of meningitis, a third of the rats with cochlear implants were stricken with meningitis. The study's authors found that in these cases, cochlear implantation lowers the threshold needed for pneumococcal baterial infection, the bacterium that causes meningitis.
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