Greetings to all. This is the Wordpress blog page for the Ophthalmology practice of Dr Adam D Koenigsberg and Family Eye Care Center of Jacksonville & Deerwood Ophthalmology. We are located in Jacksonville, Florida, a beautiful city in North Florida near the ocean where summers are warm and winters are mild. Our practice specializes in the medical and surgical correction, treatment and diagnosis of eye muscle disorders in Children and Adults. We also specializse in revision eye muscle surgery.  read more »

infoMedMD over the weekend launched embeddable infoMeds that websites can offer their visitors for free. With a simple line of code websites can provide their visitors any of the listed infoMeds for free.  Results are sent directly to the user via email - no registration or payment needed.  read more »

You've been collecting paper scraps of your medical history in that draw for years now. And if you had any kind of life so far, you know that your oh-so-personal-and-private health care information is presentaly scattered all over creation. Now to be fair, you've dabbled at trying to put a personal health record (PHR) together, here and there, fits and starts. But that was just playing, tinkering with a neat program or web-service.  read more »

I just saw this and thought it was interesting: BBC News has an article by David Sokol, a medical ethicist, called "The minefield of medical morals."  It doesn't deal directly with HIV/AIDS, but AIDS presents so many obvious and massive ethical issues, the relevance is obvious.  So, check it out if you're interested.

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There is now an elevator in front of the office building at the corner of Union Turnpike and Queens Blvd, to the E and F subway! I know I don't live in Kew Gardens BUT it still excites me for two reasons:
a) Forest Hills and Rego Park can't be far behind  read more »

So the Lifestyle Nazis on the Los Angeles City Council unanimously approved a measure that prevents any and all new "fast-food" restaurants from opening in South L.A., in order to combat obeisity. Presently, the measure will be in iffect for a year, but already multi-year extensions are on the way.  read more »

Well, another week gone by and as always, I've mined my favorite nuggets from the internet I have surfed across, especially for you, the reader.  So without further delay, I present the very best of the internet-

Regarding the Mind-  read more »

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama opposes offering reparations to the descendants of slaves, putting him at odds with some black groups and leaders.

The man with a serious chance to become the nation's first black president argues that government should instead combat the legacy of slavery by improving schools, health care and the economy for all.  read more »

A July 23 article from the Jamaica Gleaner dicusses new issues and controversies arising in the Caribbean nation as more and more HIV-positive women choose to have children.  Here are a couple key excerpts:  read more »