The suicide of a 26-year-old Pennsylvania police officer over the after-effects of the popular eye surgery LASIK was not an isolated incident, with others saying it left them with agonizing and life ...

Researchers are developing a futuristic alternative to LASIK that reshapes the eye without lasers or incisions. Using mild electrical pulses and platinum contact lenses, they temporarily soften the ...

At just 26 years old, Ryan Kingerski took a short time off from his job at the Penn Hills Police Department for what is considered an elective eye surgery. But his family says after getting Lasik eye ...

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(CBSNews) -- A significant percentage of people who undergo LASIK eye surgery to correct their vision may experience side effects from the surgery, according to a new study. Researchers found that, ...

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Sandy Keller had simply wanted to correct her nearsightedness and stop wearing contact lenses when she had laser eye surgery in September 1999. Instead, she ended up suing her surgeon and optometrist, ...

blind in her left eye. Lasik, now the most common elective surgery in the United States, is a $2.4-billion-a-year industry, according to Market Scope, a St. Louis-based newsletter that tracks the eye ...