"After listening to hours of patient horror stories Friday, an advisory panel recommended that federal regulators strengthen safety warnings for vision-correcting laser eye surgery. The panel recommended that laser manufacturers add several risk factors to their patient information and that the Food and Drug Administration improve its online consumer information about who is not a good candidate for the surgery. But the recommendations fell short of patient requests. Some want the FDA to temporarily stop the procedures or include stronger precautions, such as warnings about slow and incomplete healing of the surgical incision and the risks of serious night driving problems... A published review of safety data for all FDA-approved ophthalmic lasers showed that six months after the surgery, 17.5 percent of patients reported halos in their vision, 19.3 percent had night-driving problems and 21 percent complained of eye dryness."
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