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Transplanting the gift of sight

...residents have been blessed with the gift of returned sight. During the past 2 1/2 years, Dr. David Sabir, an eye surgeon at St. Joseph's Medical Center, has performed almost 30 corneal transplants, a delicate eye surgery that previously...

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Tetanus shot shortage causes nationwide rationing

...because of a problem with its ingredient supplier. Doctors are using workable but somewhat less desirable alternatives. Eye surgeons are stretching final supplies of Wydase, important in numbing eyes for cataract and other surgeries after Wyeth abruptly...

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...years ago, Poland left his Bloomington practice and moved to a full-time practice in Crosby. He was one of the first eye surgeons in the state to perform cataract surgery with an implantable lens. In the early 1980s, he traveled to Russia to learn...

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Lasik eye surgery at a discount

...patients among Washington area eye surgeons who perform Lasik, the elective...aroused anger and concern among other eye surgeons. They worry that discount surgery...Most fully experienced laser eye surgeons are board certified corneal specialists...

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Is Lasik eye surgery safe for children?

...enthusiastically embrace Lasik eye surgery, it's no surprise that children are beginning to ask, "What about me?" Eye surgeons report that a small but growing number of teen-agers who for various reasons cannot -- or don't want to -- wear...

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Sight restored

She lived in darkness for 38 years, blinded by a bottle that was carelessly thrown through her car windshield in 1962. Now a 74-year-old Brainerd woman can see again, thanks to a Brainerd eye surgeon. Read this remarkable story in Monday's Dispatch. Photos

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BHS speaker takes aim at politics

...high school? "I want to go to the University of Wisconsin in Madison to be a opthamologist, which is basically an eye surgeon. In sixth grade, we learned about the eye and we dissected a cow eye and it amazed me." Honorable mention: Chris...

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CROSBY - Dr. Jerome Poland and Dr. Stacy Sjoberg, ophthalmologists at Crosby Eye Clinic, recently attended Hawiian Eye, an international meeting where ophthalmologists share data and techniques on ocular surgery and conditions in Hawaii.

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