| Eye Surgeon At Dublin Clinic Faced Misconduct Charge In The U.K.
An Eye Surgeon who narrowly avoided a serious professional misconduct sanction in Britain is now operating in Dublin.
Ballsbridge,Dublin.Dec,06,2007--Dr. Anupam Chatterjee was the subject of a British General Medical Council (GMC) fitness to practice hearing in 2003 after a patient on whom he performed Laser Surgery accused the Doctor of permanently damaging his sight.
The Manchester-based Doctor was cleared of the charge but admitted during the hearing that he had gone against guidelines warning Doctors not to operate on both eyes on the same day.
The guideline was intended to make sure that any potential damage suffered by patients with complications would be limited to only one eye.
After his eyes were left permanently damaged, Manchester lawyer Paul Burton complained to the GMC saying he had not been warned of the potential risk.
3i sets its focus on eye surgery specialist
Corporación Dermoestética, a Spanish plastic surgery provider, has accepted a £174.5m ($347.8m) offer from 3i, the UK private equity group, for Ultralase, a British subsidiary specialising in laser eye treatment. Dermoestética revealed at the end of November that it was in exclusive talks with 3i that could lead to a full takeover bid. Ultralase will join 3i's diverse portfolio of healthcare investments across Europe and North America. These include stakes in companies such as PaperPak Products, a manufacturer of adult incontinence products, and Groupe Carso, a French testing services company. .
UAlbany, IMEC form partnership on future computer chip-making process
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Vision of future seen in bionic contact lens
Parviz said the health care field also might benefit from the technology. “How do we constantly monitor someone's health?" he said. “It turns out that a lot of indicators that tell if a person is healthy or not show up on the surface of the eye." A biosensor-equipped lens could provide a non-invasive way of gleaning that information and sending it on to a database or serving as a relay station for data or power from retinal implants designed to correct vision problems. Microfabrication technique
One of the first big obstacles for the team was resolving the fundamental incompatibility between the fabrication process for microchips and light-emitting diodes and the types of polymers used for contact lenses. To get around the issue, the researchers first constructed electronic circuits from ultra-thin metal layers — each only one-thousandth the width of a human hair — and fashioned diodes so small that nearly 100 could fit within an inch.
Rosacea: No laughing matter
Rosacea can manifest as anything from a blushy red face to pimples or bumps, a red nose like W.C. Fields, or eye inflammation. The bulbous red nose of the late entertainer W.C. Fields, seen above in a "David Copperfield" movie poster, has been attributed to a form of rosacea, called rhinophyma, not to his heavy-drinking lifestyle. Today, the condition can be treated with surgery. .
Local Briefs
Townsend tied for fourth in the team standings.Bighorns Squirt Team wins twoThe Bighorn Squirt Team, sponsored by Bob's Valley Market, Mountain View Eyecare and Morrison and Thresher Law Firm, PLLC, hosted the Bozeman 1 Team last weekend at the Helena Ice Arena. .
Premature twins home for Christmas after months in hospital
FOR their parents, it is the best Christmas present ever. Baby twins Kieran and Oliver Cowley will enjoy the big day at home tomorrow after spending most of their lives in hospital following their premature births. Wrapped up in bandages, surrounded by breathing and feeding tubes and confined to a small incubator for weeks, doctors warned Lauren Cowley and Greg Hiscock that they should prepare themselves for the worst when they were born 15 weeks early. Weighing just 2lb each - and both suffering from premature lung disease, the twins spent months in Southampton's Princess Anne Hospital after they were born in July. "It was terrifying," said Greg, 27. "The doctors just didn't know if they would pull through and they couldn't tell us for sure that they would be OK." Mum Lauren, 22, said it was heartbreaking not to be able to hold her babies when they were born.
Boomers set new course
Call it the Big Boom Theory. Over the next two decades, 78 million American baby boomers will hit retirement, setting off - at least in some analysts' minds - a crisis in public services, a brain drain for businesses and a budgetary disaster. Medicare and Medicaid rolls will swell, say reports like the Ohio Public Expenditure Council study released last week. Senior services will be stressed to the limit. And the 20 young workers who supported each retiree back in 1945 will shrink to less than two for each retired baby boomer in 2029. .
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