| For vet, it's not just about the animals | | Posted Monday, October 23, 2006 6:57:37 AM by Blog57 Team | | SILT - It wasn't just a love of animals that prompted Dr. Peter Langegger to open his Divide Creek Animal Hospital in Silt two years ago. It was a combination of things - including a love of science, medicine, surgery and a mentor who played a big role in Langegger's decision to become a veterinarian. Although Langegger, like a lot of kids, had once wanted to be a vet, he later discarded that idea. "I think a lot of kids want to be a vet at some point, but I left that thought behind in high school," he said. A man named Steve Warren, who has Steve's Dog and Cat Repair in Edwards, changed all that. .... | |
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| | | Doctors Cut Repeat LASIK Visits Dramatically | | Posted Thursday, September 21, 2006 1:02:36 PM by Blog57 Team | | Ophthalmologists have developed a formula that slashes by nearly two-thirds the likelihood that patients will need repeat visits to an eye surgeon to adjust their vision after their initial LASIK visit. That's because the formula makes it more likely that surgeons will get it right the first time. .... | |
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| | | UTEK Transfers a Worldwide License for a New Treatment of Glaucoma to Advanced Refractive Technologies | | Posted Sunday, August 13, 2006 3:02:07 PM by Blog57 Team | | UTEK Corporation (AMEX:UTK) (LSE-AIM:UTK), a specialty finance company focused on technology transfer, and Advanced Refractive Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB:ARFR), a medical device company focused on the development and marketing of innovative ophthalmic applications, announced today that Advanced Refractive Technologies has acquired Advanced Glaucoma Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of UTEK Corporation, in a stock transaction. Advanced Glaucoma Technologies, Inc. holds the worldwide exclusive license to a patent pending technology developed by W. Daniel Stamer, Ph.D., Associate Head for Vision Research and Associate Professor of Ophthalmology and Vision Science, and Ronald Heimark, Ph.D., Head of Surgical Research and Professor of Surgery at The University of Arizona. The primary goal in the treatment of people with glaucoma is to reduce intraocular pressure either by decreasing inflow or increasing outflow of aqueous humor (transparent fluid in the eye).... | |
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| | | Vision Surgery Has Become Trendier Than Latest Black-Rimmed Cat's ... | | Posted Wednesday, July 12, 2006 9:00:24 AM by Blog57 Team | | (PRWEB) July 9, 2006 -- Radio commercials and magazine ads trumpet so-called "flap and zap" laser eye surgery - one of the fastest-growing medical procedures in the United States - which last year helped lure about 1 million blurry-eyed Americans into doctors' offices in the hope of throwing their glasses in the trash forever. But while laser eye surgery is about as hot as the NASDAQ index, where, in fact, some of the vision chains that perform the procedure are traded, it isn't for everyone. Experts caution people tempted to undergo LASIK - the name for the most up-to-date laser procedure - to be wary of seductive advertising and to choose a surgeon carefully; when done inexpertly, laser surgery can damage the eyes. During clinical trials for the Food and Drug Administration, researchers followed patients for only six months after the surgery.... | |
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