| Ameritas Group to Offer Laser Vision Correction Coverage
LINCOLN, Neb.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 2, 2007--Ameritas Group, a division of Ameritas Life Insurance Corp., is pleased to introduce LASIK Advantage(SM), an innovative laser vision correction benefit option. LASIK Advantage will be available to customers beginning June 1. According to the Vision Council of America, more than a third of Americans using corrective eyewear are considering having laser eye surgery to improve or correct their vision. Ameritas Group understands this demand and responded by designing LASIK Advantage to cover a number of popular, well-established laser vision procedures. "This unique enhancement will make our benefits packages even more attractive for employers and employees," said Ken VanCleave, senior vice president of Ameritas Group. "As the laser vision correction field continues to expand, we will be ready to help people get the coverage they want." LASIK Advantage is available with virtually all Ameritas Group dental plans within the entire spectrum of funding, from fully insured to self-insured.
Sonography students recognized at annual Completion Dinner
College Misericordia's Diagnostic Medical Sonography Certificate Program graduates were recently recognized during the annual Sonography Completion Dinner in the Banks Student Life Center's Kennedy Lounge. Fourteen graduates completed a rigorous 18-month program, including classroom and clinical instruction. The certificate program is designed for adult or non-traditional learners who possess the necessary pre-requisites. The program offers convenient and predictable scheduling with alternating weekend classes and a weekday clinical component. Misericordia's program is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs. Sonographers perform a diagnostic medical procedure that uses ultrasound to produce dynamic visual images of human organs, tissues or blood flow inside the body.
Book-banning decision defended
The Harford County schools superintendent defended her decision to ban a teen-oriented novel about bullying from high school classes, but she told the school board last night that she is willing to take another look at the issue next year. "This is not the definitive, forever decision," Superintendent Jacqueline C. Haas said of her decision to ban The Chocolate War from the social studies curriculum for county ninth-graders. "We are discontinuing this book's use as a literary connection at this time and forming a new work group that takes us back to the original vetting for this curriculum." .
Is Klitschko Starting the "Payback's A
He did such a job on Calvin Brock that "The Boxing Banker" felt the need to diversify vocationally, and started up an online travel agency. He shredded the Cinderella story that Ray Austin thought he could pull off. And while it would be disrespectful to say that we yawned during these last two fights, no one would argue that beating Brock and Austin did much to polish the legacy Wladimir Klitschko wants to leave behind. But now we get word that Klitschko will defend his IBF world heavyweight title against Lamon Brewster on July 7 in Cologne, Germany. Now we're talking. Now we got a little storyline to mull over. Now we'll see if the demons of doubt that take residence in your brain after a man has bettered you, has imposed his will upon you, has rendered you helpless in front of your fans, your critics, your big bro, if those demons have been exorcised.
High-definition Vision Clearly a Boon for the Eyes
Raleigh — High-definition television offers a crystal-clear image compared with older, standard TV sets. What if people with poor eyesight could see with new, crystal-clear vision?Doctors are doing just that with a new laser-and-lens procedure. Margaret Nehrke's eyesight was never great, but it got worse as she aged. "I couldn't read. I couldn't see anything without my glasses," said Nehrke. Now she sees better than ever thanks to a laser-and-lens procedure called "high-definition vision.""High-definition will give better color, better clarity, better contrast," said Dr. William Rand with the Rand Eye Institute in Miami. High-definition vision combines "Custom-Vue" LASIK surgery' with the latest lens-exchange techniques, and it can give almost anyone better than perfect vision.In TV terms, the new vision is like adding more pixels, more picture detail with more visual definition.
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