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November 3, 2009

Gene Therapy Shows Promise in Restoring Vision

There is an interesting article in this month’s Lancet: Age-dependent effects of RPE65 gene therapy for Leber’s congenital amaurosis: a phase 1 dose-escalation trial. Results were also reported in yesterday’s New York Times. According to the Lancet article: Gene therapy has the potential to reverse disease or prevent further deterioration of vision in patients with…

October 30, 2009

Umpires Again in Rare Form in World Series: Forget Instant Replay, “It’s LASIK time!!”

Check out our LASIK the Refs capsWell, I made it to Yankee Stadium last night to watch game 2 with my daughter. It was a great game, won by the Yankees 3-1. Once again the umpires reconfirmed their need for LASIK! Lucikily the 2 bad, offsetting calls by 1st base umpire, Brian Gorman, did not…

October 28, 2009

Medicare Appears to be Reversing Avastin Ruling

In my October 12 Blog post I wrote about Medicare’s foolish decision to reimburse retinal specialists less than their costs for treating macular degeneration with the much- less expensive drug, Avastin. This decision would cost our government millions of dollars annually. I questioned how this system could ever manage healthcare. I received an e-mail from…

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