| Allegretto Wave Eye-Q granted wavefront-guided, mixed astigmatism ...
STERLING, Va. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved wavefront-guided and mixed astigmatism indications for WaveLight's Allegretto Wave Eye-Q system, the company announced in a press release. The FDA approved the Eye-Q system for reducing or eliminating up to 7 D of spherical equivalent of myopia or myopia with astigmatism, with up to 7 D of spherical component and up to 3 D of astigmatic component at the spectacle plane. The system is approved for use on patients at least 18 years of age who have a documented stable manifest refraction defined as less than or equal to 0.5 D of preoperative spherical equivalent shift over 1 year preop, according to the release. Procedures performed using the system can also be done with a custom offset of 3 D to +1 D for sphere and 3 D to 0 D for cylinder, the release said.
At Last, Kurt Vonnegut’s Famous Dresden Book
Kurt Vonnegut Jr., an indescribable writer whose seven previous books are like nothing else on earth, was accorded the dubious pleasure of witnessing a 20th-century apocalypse. During World War II, at the age of 23, he was captured by the Germans and imprisoned beneath the city of Dresden, "the Florence of the Elbe." He was there on Feb. 13, 1945, when the Allies firebombed Dresden in a massive air attack that killed 130,000 people and destroyed a landmark of no military significance. .
Suspect in fatal accident released on bail
Roberto Vellanoweth, the prominent political activist accused of striking and killing four people in a drunken-driving collision, was released on $250,000 bail Wednesday, according to Sacramento Jail records. A spokesman could not be immediately reached, but jail records indicate that Vellanoweth, 63, spent fewer than 12 hours in jail. And this afternoon, Sacramento Police Department Sgt. Matt Young said that tests taken after the accident showed Vellanoweth's blood-alcohol level to be 0.16, twice the state's legal limit of 0.08. .
Leech imposters could skew decades of research
In the slimiest and perhaps costliest case of mistaken identity in modern biology, hundreds of scientific papers and years of research could be thrown into doubt, for they may have been based on experiments carried out on the wrong leech. Three species of bloodthirsty invertebrate have been passing themselves off as the right leech, a discovery that adds powerfully to the shock and confusion. The evidence of this innocent error, published in a British scientific review, Proceedings of the Royal Society B, could provoke a cascade of consequences in hospitals and pharmaceutical companies around the world, the authors say. For decades scientists have used what they thought was the Hirudo medicinalis, or "medicinal leech," to develop dozens of new compounds and drugs.
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