Refractive Surgery News

University Partners with Industry to Assist Patients Injured by LASIK

Wendy Lyons Sunshine  Special To Houston Business Journal In the hopes of tossing away their glasses and contact lenses forever, nearly 3 million people have flocked to have LASIK and other vision-correcting procedures done since they first became available in the mid-1990s. Last year alone,...
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Refractive Community Responds to Public Postings of Private Physician Correspondences

Pillsbury & Levinson, LLP press release.Cataract & Refractive Surgery Today recently informed readers that excerpts of private e-mails exchanged between physician members of the International Society for Refractive Surgery (ISRS) had been posted on the public Internet newsgroup alt.lasik-eyes, causing substantial concern among the refractive...
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Ophthalmologists' E-mails Posted on Public Internet Newsgroup

http://www.crstoday.com/02_current/crst0103_01_news.html Glenn Hagele, Founder and Executive Director of the Council for Refractive Surgery Quality Assurance (CRSQA), recently alerted a number of physicians, as well as Julia Lewis, the Executive Director of the International Society for Refractive Surgery (ISRS), and Cataract & Refractive Surgery Today, that...
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