Laser Eye Surgery

... Advanced Medical Optics Pledges $1 Million for ASCRS Foundation-Sponsored Independent Research and Programming in Refractive Lenticular Science Advanced Medical Optics Pledges $1 Million for ASCRS Foundation-Sponsored Independent Research and Programming in Refractive Lenticular Science SAN FRANCISCO, March 15 /PRNewswire/ - Advanced Medical Optics (AMO) has pledged $1 million to support American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (ASCRS) Foundation-sponsored research in refractive lenticular science, it was announced here today by I.

Howard Fine, MD, ASCRS Foundation Chairman during the Opening General Session of the ASCRS Symposium and Congress.

"In 2006, we will begin work on a substantial multi-year program to support new research and new educational programs that explore the rapidly emerging science of refractive lenticular surgery," said Fine, announcing the AMO grant.

"Ophthalmology stands on the edge of an exciting new future and the changes we will experience during the next few years will be exponential.

The established paradigm of a single, government-funded provider of eye care is quickly giving way to patient-driven, multi-variant options.

What we have seen to date represents only the first timid steps into a new world of opportunity.

In the coming years, the ever-increasing merger of cataract and laser refractive science will change our practices and greatly increase what we can offer our patients." "As th...

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... The Manitoban Online Volume 93 • Issue 25 The Official University of Manitoba Students' Newspaper Website March 15, 2006 Home About Us Advertise Contact Staff Current Issue PDF Employment Letters to the Editor Meet the Staff Online Archives Personals Volunteer The Manitoban UMInfo People UMGoogle Font Size Respond Email Print-Friendly U of M, Ukraine and non-proliferation Unique program to be taken up by department of Foreign Affairs Andrew Sain Staff For the last 10 years, the University of Manitoba has — unbeknown to most — played a role in the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons through the Science and Technology Centre (STCU) in Ukraine, established in the aftermath of the fall of the Soviet Union.

Soon the program will be taken over by the department of Foreign Affairs, leading former director of the centre Ostap Hawaleshka to consider the impact the STCU has had.

Hawaleshka, professor emeritus at the university, was the founding director of the centre and was responsible for the university’s longtime role as executing agency for the Canadian contribution to the centre.

In 2001, he was named a member of the Order of Canada for his role in establishing the centre.

The original idea for the centre came from European concerns over the proliferation of weapons into areas of Asia and the Middle East, said Hawaleshka.

“They were deadly afraid all those scientists that develop...