Laser eye surgery can help treat a variety of eye conditions and improve vision quality. Treatments such as LASIK have become increasingly popular, but not everyone is a candidate for this surgery. In ...

If you wear glasses or contact lenses, you may have considered laser eye surgery to correct your vision. Over the last 25 years, millions of Americans have had LASIK (laser-assisted in situ ...

In 1987, Dr. Steven Trokel and his colleges performed the first photorefractive keratectomy (PRK) laser eye surgery in Berlin. Since then, other laser eye surgeries developed. Laser-assisted in situ ...

Diabetic retinopathy laser surgery is an in-office treatment that involves making tiny burns in the eye with a beam of light. While it does not correct vision loss that has already occurred, it can ...

Detroit meteorologist Jessica Starr asked for prayers on social media after suffering severe complications from Lasik-type eye surgery a month before she took her own life. "I do still need all the ...

Is it possible to make a femtosecond laser entirely out of glass? That's the rabbit hole that Yves Bellouard, head of EPFL's Galatea Laboratory, went down after years of spending hours—and ...

We all want perfect vision. And, to be honest, most of us after a certain age will happily settle for better vision. And that's exactly what laser eye surgery promises. Although it's highly ...

Jess Dreyfus, a 47-year-old social media marketing manager from Southern California, had worn glasses since she was eight years old and wanted to finally ditch her specs. So for her 40th birthday, she ...

In what is likely a result of our reliance on digital displays, there are now twice as many people in the US and Europe with shortsightedness (or myopia) as there were 50 years ago. Some have ...