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Show The Sail I ake Tribune. Wednesday. September 12. 199 II I KMrts F$ P and Urges Restricting Lens Implant to Elderly By Chris Count II Associated Press Writei WASHINGTON Intraocular lens implants should be restricted to elderl cataract patients, and in most eases, initially implanted in only one eye. a confeienee of eye experts agreed Tuesday The exiierts at the National Institutes Carswell Seen As Stable Alter Beating ATLANTA (API G Harrold Carswell. nominated to the U S Supreme Court by President Nixon in 1970, was listed in stable condition Tuesday after being hospital-ie- d following a f beating in his At- lanta hotel room, authorities 4 re- ported Sgt W F. Der- rick said the 59-- y M ear-ol- d ticello, Fla torney told ers a pa he beaten was Monday night by a voting man he had met the hotels skating unk. at Carswell was hit on the head at least four times by a sharp heavy object and required several stitches at Crawford W Long Hospital, officers said. Another Day in Hospital Hospital associate administrator John Henry said Carswell was treated at the emergency room about 3.30 a m. and would remain hospitalised for at least another day. On June 24. 1970, Carswell was charged with battery and attempting a lewd and lascivious act with a Tallahassee, Fla., vice squad officer at a shopping mall men's room. In October 1970. Carswell pleaded no contest to the battery charge and was fined $100 The sex charge was dropped Nomination Rejected In 1970. Carswell, then a judge on the th V S Circuit Court of Appe als, came to national attention when Nixon nominated him for the Supreme Court The nomination was rejected b Ihe US Senate on the basis ol criticism that Carswell had supported racial segregation earlier in his career Carswell was a U S attorney m Tallahassee for five years and a district ludge for 12 years He served as a federal bankruptcy rctereo alter the Supreme Court rejection -- Health Conference said lenses should be implanted in younger patients only if the patients were not likely to function adequately without contact louses oi ot OUTSTANDING SAVINGS Jurmtur I - accounts The bill, approved now goes to tbe Senate, which is expected to pass similar legislation Congress must act hv the end of the year under a court order that said such accounts were illegal unless specifically authorized by Congress. So far. 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WEST TEMfLE U&PXG. 2M 3MW PRACTICAL SALTINE CRACKERS I If You Want Roc! Values In Fine Home Furnishings You'll Find Them When You Shop The Big Displays At Granite Wednesday And Thursday. Here Are A Few Examples: The panel said there were relatively lew indications for implanting lenses in children, although it said an intraocular lens might be used m a child with a congenital cataract in one eye. This should be done only in a controlled clinical trial, the panel said Official IVobc Sulma Fire LOW, LOW FOOD PRICES AT THE I . Interest for Checking Accounts Wins St rong House Approval WASHINGTON (UPI) The House voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to allow all hanks credit unions and savings associations to pay interest on checking FOR WISE MIDWEEK SHOWERS WHO 2 mw I spectacles " The panel aehnow lodged there might be special circumstances under w hieh a IHTson could not wear contacts for physical or occupational icasons Some 400,000 persons underwent cataract surgery last year and ll.uoo had the plastic lenses implanted m their ey es Most were elderly The conference concluded that the lens implant was almost as sate as But imcataract extraction alone plants carry a small but significant risk of additional complications, it said Fewer Iens Implants Dr Norman S. Jaffe, a Dmveisiiy ol Miami professor of opthalmology and eye surgeon, predicted that the guidelines developed at a conference would result in a in percent drop in the number of lens implants. Basically, these would involve implants on healthy young people, he said the A Ralph Nader organization, Health Research Group, urged the government last week to restrict Medicare funding for the lens implants. It said not enough is known about their quality, and noted that the Food and Drug Administration has recalled 40,000 lenses since 1975 32, (KM) Recalled But Jalte said 32,000 of the lenses were recalled in February 1978, simply because the FD wanted them packed in a dry sterile solution instead of a wet one. Only three patients have lost eyes m the past two years because of problems with lens implants, he said The conference participants said a reasonable time period should lapse before the second (implant) operation Jaife and Dr. A. Edward Maumeneeof Johns Hopkins University suggested six months. Nearly 6,0(K) eye surgeons perform lens implants in ths country Three months ago the FDA approved the contact lenses for first extended-wea- r cataract patients. These lenses can lie kept in the eye for 30 days Implants for 40r One doctor at the eonterenee pie dieted that in the future. 40 percent of cataract surgery patients will get lens implants, 40 percent will wear the contact lenses and the rest will use other methods Lens implant surgery and the lens itself cost from $1,000 to $1,500, Maumenee said Cempn I I Friday Is i THURSDAY ONLY NCW HOURS MON SAT J I I |
