{"id":13048,"date":"2015-05-20T10:06:01","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T10:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/6-incredible-health-stories-that-make-us-proud-to-be-americans\/"},"modified":"2015-05-20T10:06:01","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T10:06:01","slug":"6-incredible-health-stories-that-make-us-proud-to-be-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/6-incredible-health-stories-that-make-us-proud-to-be-americans\/","title":{"rendered":"6 incredible health stories that make us proud to be Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"<li class=\"dv-item dv-item-first\">\n<h2>5.nbspTeen undergoes innovative eye surgery in hopes of achieving US Air Force dream<\/h2>\n<p>Photo credit: Boxer Wachler Vision Institute<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p>When 15-year-old Jon Dase was later diagnosed with Keratoconus, a disease that causes vision loss, distortion, double-vision and multiple images, impacting everything from reading text on paper, to driving at night, he thought he military dreams were over. Jon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s father is an active-duty U.S. Marine, his paternal grandfather was also a Marine, and both of his maternal grandparents were in the U.S. Army. His brother Chris plans on joining the U.S. Marines Corps when he turns 18, and Jon has wanted to join the U.S. Air Force since he was 10.<\/p>\n<p>The military, however, maintains a policy that prevents men and women from entering the service if they have had keratoconus\u00e2\u20ac\u201d even if they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve received corrective surgery, according to the U.S. Air Force website. Dr. Brian S. Boxer Wachler, of the Boxer Wachler Vision Institute in Beverly Hills, Calif., invented a surgery\u00e2\u20ac\u201d called Holcomb C3-R\u00e2\u20ac\u201d that would eventually halt the progression of Jon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Keratoconus. The procedure serves as an alternative to a cornea transplant. The non-invasive surgery involves applying a crosslinking solution to the cornea, which is activated with a special light. That combination strengthens the eye\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s collagen fibers and prevents further bulging, thus stabilizing the keratoconus. Dase and his family have now reached out to their local representatives in the hopes of petitioning the military to make changes in their eyesight policy for people having corrective surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Read more:\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/health\/2014\/11\/11\/teen-undergoes-innovative-eye-surgery-in-hopes-achieving-us-air-force-dream\/<\/p>\n<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5.nbspTeen undergoes innovative eye surgery in hopes of achieving US Air Force dream Photo credit: Boxer Wachler Vision Institute When 15-year-old Jon Dase was later diagnosed with Keratoconus, a disease that causes vision loss, distortion, double-vision and multiple images, impacting everything from reading text on paper, to driving at night, he thought he military dreams [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}