| High-definition Vision Clearly a Boon for the Eyes
Raleigh — High-definition television offers a crystal-clear image compared with older, standard TV sets. What if people with poor eyesight could see with new, crystal-clear vision?Doctors are doing just that with a new laser-and-lens procedure. Margaret Nehrke's eyesight was never great, but it got worse as she aged. "I couldn't read. I couldn't see anything without my glasses," said Nehrke. Now she sees better than ever thanks to a laser-and-lens procedure called "high-definition vision.""High-definition will give better color, better clarity, better contrast," said Dr. William Rand with the Rand Eye Institute in Miami. High-definition vision combines "Custom-Vue" LASIK surgery' with the latest lens-exchange techniques, and it can give almost anyone better than perfect vision.In TV terms, the new vision is like adding more pixels, more picture detail with more visual definition.
Local eye doc addresses UN on blindness
It was 1929 when Helen Keller gave her famous Knights of the Blind address to the United Nations, appealing for leaders to join forces to help the sightless see. Following in that tradition is Kodiaks Jerimiah Myers, longtime optometrist and Lions Club leader, who on March 9, gave his own presentation to a U.N. General Assembly group in New York City. Doc Myers was one of about 700 Lions members to participate in the event that drew representatives from countries around the world. Myers spoke briefly on preventable blindness. It is important to continue to work together to meet the humanitarian needs of the world, Myers said. Among highlights of the daylong event were presentations by U.N. officials and ambassadors, an awards ceremony for the grand prizewinner of the Lions International Peace Poster contest, a special luncheon with U.N.
Surgery center changes behind the scenes
Nearly a year since Covenant HealthCare announced plans to change management of outpatient surgery at its Mackinaw Medical Center, the second floor now is operating as the Mackinaw Surgery Center. The center is a joint venture of Covenant, a group of 20 physician partners, and the Leawood, Kan.-based Nueterra Healthcare management company. The transition became official this month. Whitney Miller, marketing specialist with Nueterra, said it's had no effect on operations of the same-day surgery site. "Surgeries continue to be performed as usual, so patients wouldn't know the difference," she said. The second floor at 5400 Mackinaw in Saginaw Township includes four licensed operating rooms, two procedure rooms for surgeries that don't require anesthesia and two treatment rooms for removal of skin lesions.
• 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.
Last December, this man saved the lives of a trainload of passengers
New Delhi, April 16: MAHENDER Singh may be 57 and may have had a cataract operation recently but he remains every bit as alert and quick as before as evidenced by the way he put his life at risk in December last year to save the lives of thousands of train passengers. Singh, who is a key man with the railways with the job of tightening keys or bolts on tracks between New Delhi Railway Station and Pragati Maidan, came to work on December 6, 2006 an hour before his 5 am reporting time because he misread the time on his clock at home. .
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