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...developer and manufacturer of the drug, Ophthalmologist Alan Scott, lost his liability insurance last year. In January, unable to find another insurer willing to charge a reasonable premium, he notified doctors who were participating in the Oculinum trials that without coverage he would no longer be able to supply the drug. Because people associate the drug with botulism, ! Scott told the New York Times, insurers are afraid they will be hit with huge damage suits if any untoward side effects occur. He notes that among some 7,000 patients who have received the drug to date, side effects have been...
Both the retinoblastoma and Duchenne genes were located by comparing DNA strands from healthy and diseased cells. The retinoblastoma team, led by Ophthalmologist Thaddeus Dryja of the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, found that there are actually two genes in healthy people that protect against the eye cancer -- probably by ordering production of a protein that prevents cells from multiplying uncontrollably. People born with both of these genes intact can usually sustain damage to one without developing retinoblastoma. But those born with one damaged gene nearly always lose the other and develop the disease...
...sensitive one, so studio executives were shown test footage of "a young man" they were told was being considered. Laughs Executive Producer Linda Yellen: "We kept them going and then revealed it was Vanessa." By all accounts, Vanessa Redgrave gives an uncanny performance as Richard Raskind, the New York ophthalmologist who underwent transsexual surgery, became Renee Richards and joined the women's pro tennis tour. "I hold a tremendous empathy for her," said Redgrave, "a woman trapped inside a man's body." The actress's work in the film, which airs on cbs next month, earned her the admiration...
...million) in May 1984, he had waged a campaign of letter writing and hunger strikes to secure an exit visa for Bonner, who suffers from glaucoma and heart trouble, so that she might receive medical treatment in the West. Before she left for Italy, where she consulted her ophthalmologist, then met briefly with Premier Bettino Craxi and Pope John Paul II prior to leaving for heart treatment in the U.S., Bonner explained that her three-month visa had been approved on the condition that she not talk to the press. "I have to be able to come back," she told...
...tiny dots of black or brown iron-oxide pigment 1 mm into the lids. It is a delicate undertaking, and pigment can inadvertently be put into hair follicles rather than under the skin. Another worry is that the pigment may migrate into the lymphatic system. J. Earl Rathbun, an ophthalmologist at the University of California, San Francisco, has a more mundane concern: "Making sure people know what they want and where they want it, because once it's put in, it's permanent." In short, no one should go into the operation with her eyes closed...