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A Lighter, Defter Touch
Although LASIK remains the laser eye surgery of choice, in the past few years, more eye surgeons have been performing a procedure called photorefractive keratectomy (PRK). In some cases, they are turning away from LASIK entirely, say experts. New Material Makes Contacts Safer, Comfier There's New Hope for People With Age-Related Macular Degeneration High-Tech Tools Promise Independence to the Visually Impaired PDAs, BlackBerrys—the Little Devices That Rule Our Lives Also Play Havoc With Our Vision. How to Cope .
UB's Ira G. Ross Eye Institute Opens on Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The new home of the University at Buffalo's Ira G. Ross Eye Institute -- a collaboration of the Department of Ophthalmology in UB's School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, the Elizabeth Pierce Olmsted, M.D., Center for the Visually Impaired and University Ophthalmology Services -- opened today at 1176 Main Street. The institute, located on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus, is an integral part of the university's major initiative to create a more vibrant presence in downtown Buffalo as it grows by 40 percent between now and the year 2020. The institute is dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of adults and children with diseases of the eye and the vision system. While its research component will be located on UB's South (Main Street) Campus, patient care and training of physicians will take place at 1176 Main St.
Canadian health care system lags behind Europe, study says
They don't tell us that the physicians who leave Canada because of our socialist system may not represent huge numbers, but they represent our potential leaders, teachers, and 'best of the best'in medicine, because those kinds of people tend to not respond well to being told what they can and can't do by a government bureaucrat. Our system needs compassion AND flexibility. The ability to use our own personal money to get the healthcare we want would create that flexibility. Is it against the law to buy better food? better shelter? Better education? NO. But it is against the law to buy better healthcare in Canada. What ethical basis is there for this? Are food and shelter less important than healthcare? It's the socialist ideas of so called 'Canadian Hero' Tommy Douglas and politics that are destroying our system.
Jeff Thelen's Blog
My symptoms are a sore throat, tiredness and aches and pains. I have no congestion, but my nose only runs at night. Wierd, isn't it? Alison Struve blows her nose so much she sounds like a foghorn. Stephanie Luisier and chief photographer Randy Bise both have that "sick sound" when they talk. Was it just me or did the Badgers seem a little unfocused and unprepared for their bowl game? Perhaps it's the long layoff between their last regular season game and the contest on January 1. It was a sort of a fun game to watch, even if it was rather sloppily played. And we love it when a coach gambles and the play works, but when it doesn't we go, "what the heck did you do that for?" And with Coach Bielema going for the touchdown on 4th down instead of the fieldgoal that would have pulled his team within 1 point in the fourth quarter, he's facing some of that criticism now.
Unlike Patriots’ big name signings, Giants quietly built from ground ...
Johnson, who started five games in the regular season as an injury replacement, has been a nickel and dime safety.And Bradshaw, who fell in the draft because of disciplinary problems at Marshall, has been another prize.Held out of action until he learned to pick up blitzers, he had an 88-yard touchdown run in the playoff-clinching win in Buffalo, and has provided an elusive alternative to the bruising Jacobs in the playoffs. In fact, he leads the Giants in postseason rushing with 163 yards, four more than Jacobs, and had 63 yards on 16 carries, including a 4-yard TD run against the Packers. Story created Jan 22, 2008 - 12:45:56 EST.
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On The Tube
A true screen classic, this 1948 adventure explores the darker side of human nature, a favorite topic of director-screenwriter John Huston. Humphrey Bogart, Tim Holt and Huston's father, Walter, play the fortune seekers whose quest for a gold supply turns into an orgy of suspicion and murderous greed. "THE BIGGEST LOSER: COUPLES" 8 p.m. KING/5 A surprise elimination pits one pair against all the others. "DIRTY JOBS" 9 p.m. Discovery Channel Mike works with a cave biologist, then braves the high seas in search of slime eels. Ewwww! "CARPOOLERS" 9:30 p.m. KOMO/4 Insert your own "dog-eat-dog" joke here. Laird (Jerry O'Connell) takes in a dog that's been hanging around the neighborhood, not realizing it's actually a coyote that loves domestic canines -- for dinner.
'Shining City' illuminates despair of existential crisis
Some of us come out the other side of that as deeper people. Some of us get stuck for life in its morass.
That's pretty much what "Shining City," Conor McPherson's extraordinary Irish drama and the first of this astonishing writer's truly great plays, is all about. And it's a measure of McPherson's ear for the delicacy of the human condition that this also is a wry, funny, humanistic and compassionate story. At the Goodman Theatre on Sunday night, this 100-minute yarn pulled in the audience as if they were hearing a tall tale told over a pint and a bag of crisps. And then by shockingly undermining the few certainties upon which we think we still can cling in this brutally relativist world, McPherson then smacks you right in the gut.
I've seen and reviewed "Shining City" three times -- London, New York and now Chicago.
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