Having optometrists perform laser eye surgery was not found to lead to a meaningful increase in nearby health care professionals for the population. Shorter travel times for care and an increase in ...

THE FUMC’s Refractive Laser Center houses the Zeiss Visumax 800 femtosecond laser. THE popular eye surgery Lasik, which stands for Laser-Assisted In Situ Keratomileusis, forever changed how the ...

Scientists have developed a revolutionary laser treatment to prevent blindness. This non-invasive therapy uses ultra-short light pulses to naturally heal retinal damage. It targets diseases like ...

This past November, a patient asked optometrist Kaitlin Soracco to remove a bulge of skin on her eyelid. Such skin tags can be excised right there in the office using procedures Soracco studied and ...

One of our most cherished senses has to be the gift of sight. For a start, you’d not be reading this article without it. But as any glasses wearer will tell you, how nice it would be to not always ...

Patients are not being warned about the debilitating risks of laser eye surgery, which can leave some in agonising pain and even suicidal, experts have warned. Each year an estimated 100,000 Britons ...