Experts urge clearer warnings about Lasik risks

A panel of medical advisers — mostly eye doctors wearing glasses — listened to tales of woe and wonder on April 25 from people who sought to get rid of their specs through Lasik surgery.

What was clear by day's end: The vast majority of people undergoing laser eye surgery benefit and are happy, but a small fraction, perhaps fewer than 1 percent, suffer serious, life-changing side effects: worse vision, painful dry eye, glare, inability to drive at night.

Advisers to the Food and Drug Administration heard about a dozen of those stories April 25 — including a father reading his son's suicide note — and then concluded that today's warnings for would-be Lasik recipients should be made more clear.

source: Monterey Herald