Nearly 160,000 Americans could be eligible for a refund if misled by the nation's biggest LASIK chain, which advertised the surgery for as little $300 an eye, even though most consumers would not ...

A key area of practice management and sustainability initiatives is ensuring that waste is reduced whenever possible. In a ...

Patients who had LASIK eye vision corrective surgery — or Laser-Assisted In Situ Keratomileusis — have been weighing in on the recent draft guidelines from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ...

Patients with high myopia had less favorable refractive results after LASIK but still had satisfactory short-term outcomes, ...

PITTSBURGH (CBS) -- A former FDA advisor, who told the government to approve LASIK eye surgery in the 1990s, is now saying it should have never happened. It comes as more patients are having the ...

When patient activist Paula Cofer of Tampa, Florida, learned that LASIK surgeries, laser eye surgery that corrects vision, were soaring during the pandemic, she was disappointed, but not surprised.

Laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis (LASIK) surgery is a type of laser eye surgery. During LASIK surgery, a surgeon uses a laser to change the shape of the cornea. A person can undergo LASIK surgery ...

LASIK (laser in-situ keratomileusis) is a heavily advertised, wildly popular in-office procedure in which a U-shaped flap is cut in the surface of the cornea over the iris, the underlying tissue ...

HealthDay News — Nine out of 10 laser in situ keratomileusis (LASIK) patients report satisfaction afterwards, although a sizable percentage experience new visual disturbances up to six months after ...

Aug. 16, 2002 — Because many patients with dry eyes are unable to tolerate contact lenses, they may desire corrective surgery such as laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis (LASIK). A prospective study ...