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...cataract procedures are performed each year to correct clouding in the lens of the eye. Until 20 years ago, the main treatment was the removal of the patient's lens and its replacement with a thick pair of cataract glasses to correct his vision. Now ophthalmologists are able to implant a new, artificial lens behind the iris, a procedure that has become so routine that it is usually done on an outpatient basis...
...Dole lost the use of his right hand, it was as though his body set about the business of compensation, like the blind man who depends more on his hearing. "It's almost as if the affliction of the wound, which limits his writing ability, improves his ability to implant it in his head," Warner says. The muscles formed in his memory, in his ability to juggle half a dozen ideas or agendas or details with an ease that left his colleagues gasping. "I'd have something important to tell him," recalls Wyoming Senator Alan Simpson...
...research team also concluded that the length of time an implant is in place does not affect the risk of developing a connective-tissue disease...
Both Schur and Liang resigned from a Harvard study on the safety of breast implants that was sponsored by Dow Corning Corp., the largest defendant in the implant suits for which the two doctors had served as consultants...
Brigham and Women's Hospital will require external oversight by scientists from outside the hospital to attest to the integrity of all breast implant research conducted at the hospital