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He did such a job on Calvin Brock that "The Boxing Banker" felt the need to diversify vocationally, and started up an online travel agency. He shredded the Cinderella story that Ray Austin thought he could pull off. And while it would be disrespectful to say that we yawned during these last two fights, no one would argue that beating Brock and Austin did much to polish the legacy Wladimir Klitschko wants to leave behind. But now we get word that Klitschko will defend his IBF world heavyweight title against Lamon Brewster on July 7 in Cologne, Germany. Now we're talking. Now we got a little storyline to mull over. Now we'll see if the demons of doubt that take residence in your brain after a man has bettered you, has imposed his will upon you, has rendered you helpless in front of your fans, your critics, your big bro, if those demons have been exorcised.
Blind aviator's charity flight lands in Jakarta
JAKARTA: Blind British aviator MILES HILTON-BARBER landed his microlight aircraft in Indonesian capital to complete another leg of his London-Sydney charity flight. With the aid of co-opilot Richard Meredith-Hardy, Hilton-Barber safely flew his Pegasus Mainair GT 450 in to East Jakarta's Halim Perdanakusumah. "He came here to raise funds for fighting avoidable blindness, notably cataracts," said Rastra, who represents the financial organisation sponsoring the flight. Hilton-Barber, who has been blind for 25 years, is travelling 22,000km across 19 countries with the aim of raising $1 million to fund cataract surgery in developing countries. "There are so many blind people who have no opportunity to undergo the operation," said Rastra.
Second wave of community hospitals unleashed
The government has announced a new series of community hospitals schemes worth 50m, most of which involve refurbishments rather than new buildings. Six new health centres, two new community hospitals and eight refurbished community hospitals will open in towns and cities across the country as part of a major drive to provide NHS patients with more minor operations, medical tests and follow-up care outside of large hospitals. The fact that the majority of the new community hospitals are refurbishments has not stopped the Department of Health (DH) from branding them as new building projects. When the DH announced the first wave of such schemes in December, the two community hospitals it unveiled were also refurbishments. On the other hand, all eight local health centres and supersurgeries that the DH has announced since December are to built from scratch.
Dr. William Rudy Returns to Kent to Join Northeast Ohio Eye Surgeons
From Kent Roosevelt High School all the way to Seattle, Washington and back again, Dr. William Rudys work as an optometrist has taken him across the country. As the next step in his career, he has returned to Kent to join the staff at Northeast Ohio Eye Surgeons.
[ClickPress, Fri Apr 06 2007] From Kent Roosevelt High School all the way to Seattle, Washington and back again, Dr. William Rudys work as an optometrist has taken him across the country. As the next step in his career, he has returned to Kent to join the staff at Northeast Ohio Eye Surgeons.
Dr. Rudys extensive background in refractive surgery, glaucoma treatment, laser vision correction and multi-focal intraocular lens implantation procedures has already proven helpful to several patients at Northeast Ohio Eye Surgeons.
Their New Vision
Sight loss from retinitis pigmentosa usually starts in young adults, signaled by more than usual difficulty seeing in poor light—in turn indicating progressive degeneration of retinal cells. Eventually, tunnel vision develops and, by 50, many sufferers will be legally blind. Besides taking vitamin supplements to help stave off the disease, no treatment exists. But a discovery by Fovea Pharmaceuticals co-founder and Chief Scientific Advisor José-Alain Sahel could change that. A professor at Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris, Dr. Sahel and his team discovered a naturally occurring protein in rod photoreceptors, a type of retinal cell responsible for night vision. .
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