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COMMENTS: See Clearly Now
The Food & Drug Administration approved lasik eye surgery in 1995 and since then some 12m people have been able to throw away those silly little glasses at a cost of up to $5,000 for both eyes. Yet "there has been no comprehensive look at quality of life," after the procedure, ABC's Lisa Stark (embargoed link) told us. Both she and NBC's Robert Bazell covered the FDA's decision to launch such a study. Bazell warned that some patients need constant eye drops because of dryness. Stark used distorted video footage to dramatize other adverse risks: double vision, night blindness, star bursts and haloes.
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