There are a range of techniques laser eye surgery, used to correct eyesight issues such as astigmatism, long and short-sightedness - Getty Click here to view this content. I’m one of 30 million people ...

If you wear glasses or contact lenses, you may have considered laser eye surgery to correct your vision. Over the last 25 years, millions of Americans have had LASIK (laser-assisted in situ ...

When one of Kristina Alton’s contact lenses fell out at her office in New York City, she had to make the hour-long commute back to her apartment to get a replacement. “It was such a disaster,” she ...

Many American taxpayers undergo clinical procedures to correct vision problems. The most common in today’s medical environment is laser eye surgery, commonly called Lasik. Taxpayers cannot deduct the ...

In 1987, Dr. Steven Trokel and his colleges performed the first photorefractive keratectomy (PRK) laser eye surgery in Berlin. Since then, other laser eye surgeries developed. Laser-assisted in situ ...

Femtosecond laser-assisted cataract surgery (FLACS) not only cost more than PCS, but yielded less improvement in quality-adjusted life years (QALY) versus PCS (0.788 vs 0.792). The cost of surgery ...

What Is a Posterior Capsulotomy? A YAG laser posterior capsulotomy is a procedure done to help remove scar tissue after you’ve had a lens replacement. Inside your eye, behind the iris and pupil, is a ...

Singer Taylor Swift recently appeared in a video, but not the kind that might win an MTV Video Music Award. (Photo by Aaron J. Thornton/Getty Images) After you get laser eye surgery, you can’t just ...