| Medicine's New Bankers
Corporate healthcare is all geared up to increase its market share and penetrate into more areas, each with their own business models. Nancy Singh checks out the ambitious plans of major groups Primary healthcare and going retail is the new mantra that corporate healthcare giants are singing. After unleashing plans to acquire, build or manage more and more hospitals, major groups like Apollo, Fortis and Manipal are venturing into primary healthcare and extending the 'retail' dimension. Manipal Health Systems is entering the retail segment with plans for over 100 healthcare stores across India in the next two years. Apollo Clinics has plans for a network of at least 100 clinics in the next couple of years. .
COLLEGE BASKETBALL: Jones headed to Mercyhurst
Sure, Franklin Jones missed playing basketball, but even more so he missed spending time with his friends and family in Niagara Falls.So this past week, Jones decided it was time to move on and transfer from the University of Texas at El Paso. Jones says he's headed to Division II Mercyhurst University in Erie, Pa., which is only a short drive from the Cataract City."The campus is real good and I like the smaller school size — plus it's closer to home," Jones said Thursday. "Mercyhurst's a great school for me. My family will be able to see me play and I need that family support." Jones, a 7-footer, was redshirted this past season at UTEP and hasn't played competitively in three seasons. He was out of high school eligibility after advancing to Glens Falls with the Wolverines in the 2003-04 season.The following year, Jones enrolled at Mount Zion Academy (S.C.), but endured a tumultuous tenure and came back home to earn his high school diploma last June at NFHS.Jones, who has four years of eligibility remaining, will be able to play next season because he'll be transferring to the Division II level.
Eye Disease Gave Painters Different View
A U.S. ophthalmologist has recreated famous works of art as the painters might have seen their own work while suffering from eye disease. Dr. Michael Marmor of the Stanford University School of Medicine combined computer simulation with his own medical knowledge to recreate images of some of the masterpieces of French impressionistic painters Claude Monet and Edgar Degas. Both painters continued to work while struggling with cataracts and retinal disease. In Marmor's simulated versions of how the painters would most likely have seen their work, Degas' later paintings of nude bathers become so blurry it's difficult to see any of the artist's brush strokes. Monet's later paintings, when adjusted to reflect the typical symptoms of cataracts, appear dark and muddied.
Lasik Vs. Contacts
An estimated fifty-two percent of women and forty-eight percent of men use some form or vision correction, glasses, contacts or surgery. There are more than a million people who say they need vision correction, but don't use any. What's the best option? .
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Ciara Thompson - Playing basketball at the park, swimming in the lake and jogging. I also enjoy spending time with family and friends. Tristen Giesey - Sports, scrapbooking, working out and watching movies. Brittany Mizer - 12 years of 4-H; outdoors, movies, hanging with friends, four wheelers, whitewater rafting. Kate Brindley - Golfing Ida Doutt - Staying active, athletics, academics, relationships and community play major parts of my life. Megan Campbell - Playing sports, reading and spending time with family. Plans After Graduation Ashley Owen - Attend the College of Wooster to play soccer and major in speech pathology. Abby Honaker - Attend college for a degree in secondary education. Rachel Kehn - Attend The Ohio State University for optometry school.
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