Eye Surgery News Archive

Treatment Seems to Help Adults with Lazy Eye (InteliHealth)
(The New York Times News Service) -- New research shows that young adults with lazy eye can improve their eyesight with a new treatment developed by the University of Southern California and three Chinese universities.

Iris registration makes lasik surgery more precise (WBBH)
LEE COUNTY ? It's the same technology used in high-tech security eye scanners and now a Southwest Florida doctor is using it to make lasik surgery more effective. Doctors say the new technology makes the future of lasik surgery a lot more clear.

CHERNOBYL CHILD: Russian boy, 11, coming back here for eye surgery (Patriot Ledger)
SCITUATE - Serghey Kravchenko likes to draw pictures of Spider-Man and cars, and he hopes to be an artist some day. Joe and Tess Ruka of Scituate believe the 11-year-old boy from Klintsy, Russia, who spent last summer with them through the Chernobyl Children Project, can realize his dream.

Lasik surgery for poor attracts little interest (Chicago Sun-Times)
EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. -- A program to provide inexpensive, corrective Lasik eye surgery to poor Metro East residents is struggling to generate interest.

Eagle's Eye: The Big 'B' mania (Central Chronicle)
Thank God, the so-called Big 'B' (which seems to be quite synonymous to infamous scientific theory on origin of this world i.e. 'Big Bang ') is discharged from the Mumbai's Leelawati hospital.

Lasik program struggling to find low-income patients (Kansas City Star)
EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. - A program designed to provide corrective eye surgery to low-income residents on the Illinois side of the St. Louis area is struggling to generate interest among the poor, but it has become a hit with police officers and firefighters, who also are eligible.

Lasik turns 10 (Florida Today)
First the left eye, then the right, fills the screen on the overhead TVmonitor, as Jamie Tertechny undergoes Lasik surgery to correct her blurred distance vision.

Super six sophmores to keep an eye on (The Daily Progress)
When it comes to recruiting, it's never too early to check out prospects. So, for the first time in the Gold List's 13-year history, The Daily Progress is offering up a Super Sophomores list with the help of high school football guru Zirkle Blakey of Virginiapreps.com.

JILL'S PAYOUT FOR EYE OP (Daily Mirror)
A FLORIST has won damages after laser surgery on her eyes left her unable to read properly or drive. Jill Walker, 46, hoped she wouldn't have to wear glasses again but the Lasik surgery by Dr Vinod Gupta at the Ultralase Eye Clinic, Leeds, ruined her corneas.

Surgical Device for Removing Debris from the Eye (Vitrectomy) (Pharmalicencing)
A Scottish organisation offers a cost-effective vitrectomy device, developed and currently used by leading eye surgeons in Scotland. The device has proved easy to use, reliable and successful in various types of eye surgery.

POP ANA EYE OP (Daily Mirror)
SPECS-wearing pop star Anastacia has had laser surgery to improve her sight. The singer, 32, said: "I started using contacts on stage but I didn't get on with them.

A decade later, Lasik surgery not revolutionary and still a luxury (Centre Daily Times)
CHICAGO -- Christopher Tomes, 43, opened his eyes one morning, looked out the window and could read the license plate of a parked car -- without his glasses.

Lasik program finds new role after Sept. 11 (Northwest Herald)
EAST ST. LOUIS ? A program designed to provide corrective eye surgery to low-income Metro East residents is struggling to generate interest among the poor, but it has become a hit with police officers and firefighters, who also are eligible.

ANASTACIA HAS EYE SURGERY BUT KEEPS GLASSES (ContactMusic)
Pop star ANASTACIA has vowed to continue wearing her trademark glasses, despite having her vision corrected by laser eye surgery. The I'M OUTTA LOVE singer is famed for her flamboyant spectacles, but hated having to wear them onstage.

Getting into focus years after Lasik (Baltimore Sun)
Some patients find that, with age, reading becomes a problem; a fix is coming LasikLasik[From Page 1D]

Cards eye alternatives after Dotel slips away (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
Former Yankee Felix Rodriguez (left) is still in club's sights as Octavio Dotel could be in Yankee pinstripes in 2006.

Lasik surgery can save your marriage (AdJab)
Filed under: Gripes , Television So it's the day after Christmas, and I'm in my sweatpants, sitting on the couch while my laundry turns in the dryer, and I'm watching Monday morning syndicated television ( Becker , if you must know). A commercial for a local Lasik surgery center comes on, and a woman gives a testimonial, saying that since she's had Lasik surgery, her husband looks at her

10 Years Later, LASIK Still A Luxury Procedure (The Boston Channel)
Laser vision correction has changed people's lives -- but it still remains out of reach for many.

Leawood eye doctor helps test new laser (The Business Journal of Kansas City)
A Leawood eye doctor has been chosen to participate in a clinical study of new laser surgery technology being introduced in the United States.

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