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A Harvard professor at the Medical School (HMS) said yesterday that he has invented a new contact lens which enables people with severe corneal damage to see clearly.
Dr. Perry Rosenthal, assistant clinical professor of ophthalmology at HMS and an eye surgeon, says his lens has worked in about 80 percent of test cases.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently approved the invention, called the Boston Scleral Lens, making it legal for distribution to eye doctors around the country.
Angiogenesis is the harbinger of metastasis. The same vessels that feed the tumor also provide it with avenues of escape. Not all the myriad cells shed by tumors survive the turbulent voyage through the bloodstream, notes experimental oncologist Ann Chambers of the London Regional Cancer Centre in Ontario. But those...
DIED. ROBERT DOISNEAU, 81, photographer; in Paris. The postwar Paris captured by the lens of Doisneau's camera was the Paris of young lovers stealing an ! embrace, American soldiers roughhousing around the City of Light, two bearded compatriots excitedly greeting each other with kissed cheeks -- in short, the Paris of...