Texas Jewish Post (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 15, 1995 Page: 16 of 24
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Communities Act, the law
was expanded last year to
give schools the flexibility
also to address violence pre-
vention and school safety
issues. Congress agreed to
invest $482 million, mostly
in the form of grants to states,
for this year’s effort to pro-
tect children and youth. But,
last week, the House Appro-
priations Committee on La-
bor. HHS and Education pro-
posed to eliminate the entire
program.
“It makes no sense,” says
U S.Secretary of Education
Richard W. Riley. “The most
recent national survey of
drug use among high school
students tells us that it actu-
ally is increasing for all ages
surveyed and for most drugs.
This is certainly not the time
to give up.”
Hine, in the same neigh-
borhood as the U S. Capitol
and the Library of Congress,
has used federal education
funds, along with other re-
sources, to establish student
and family services includ-
ing workshops, health fairs,
referrals, extracurricular ac-
tivities, and counseling; and
has developed and imple-
mented drug education pro-
grams for children and
adults.
‘Teachers tell us that these
programs directly impact
students' personal, social
and academic behavior in the
classroom,” says Javane
Strong, prevention coordi-
nator for California’s Ber-
keley Unified School Dis-
trict. "They say it enables
them to teach more and dis-
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Riley points out that last
year Congress embraced a
National Education Goal:
Every school in America will
be free of violence and drugs.
“Now they propose to take
away the resources that com-
munities count on to make
their schools safe and drug-
free," he says. “It would be a
tragic mistake.”
Cornea Transplants Improved
by New Laser Technique
HOUSTON — A contro-
versial new surgical proce-
dure may be good news for
eye banks, despite the initial
fear that it would run them
out of business.
Dr. Kirk R. Wilhelmus,
medical director of the Li-
ons Eye Bank of Texas,
Baylor College of Medicine
believes corneal transplan-
tation, the oldest, most suc-
cessful and most frequent
transplantation operation
performed in the world, may
become even more success-
ful due to the introduction of
an excimer laser by Summit
Technology, Inc.
The laser, approved by the
FDA for photorefractive
keratectomy, or the correct-
ing of corneal shape, may
soon be approved to "pol-
ish" away elevated scars on
the surface of the cornea to
improve sight. However, eye
banks foresee a different use
of the laser.
“We anticipate that the
laser will be used to make a
more precise, cleaner cut into
the tissue, thus lessening
scars and raising the high
success rate of corneal trans-
plantation to a new level,”
said Wilhelmus, “In the fu-
ture we may sec the devel-
opment of an epi
keratectomy, ora living con-
tact lens.”
Eye banks like the Lions
Eye Bank of Texas in Hous-
ton have supplied corneal
tissue to surgeons for sight-
restoring surgery. Many
people in the eye banking
field initially feared that the
laser would be a downfall to
eye banks because of its pos-
sibility of eliminating the
need for transplantation.
Dr. Reinhart anticipates
one problem that the excimer
laser will cause in tissue pro-
curement. He cautions eye
banks to watch for tissue of
donors who have undergone
laser surgery.
“If the laser procedure is
used as a polishing device,
the cornea will be much thin-
ner. We would have to de-
velop a way of inspecting
procured corneas before in-
cision to prevent paper thin
corneas from being trans-
planted."
"We are excited about the
laser and look forward to the
introduction of it into eye
banking,” said Emile J.
Farge. Ph D., executive di-
rector of the Lions Eye Bank
of Texas, the largest eye bank
in the world, “It’s ironic that
a beam of light will help to
restore sight.”
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