The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is reporting that TLC LASIK surgeon, Mark Whitten, of Rockville, Maryland was ordered by a jury in Allegheny County to pay $850,000 to David Cantalupo. The patient will also recover monetary damages from three other defendants in the case, bringing the total to more than $1 million. The lawsuit claims that Mr. Cantalupo had thin corneas, which should have disqualified him for LASIK surgery. He now suffers permanent eye damage. Source Dr. Mark Whitten was previously sued for performing LASIK on a young...
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For Immediate Release: November 17, 2008 Lawmakers Question Whether FDA Knowingly Allowed Unsafe & Ineffective Medical Devices into U.S. Market Washington, D.C. - Reps. John D. Dingell (D-MI), Chairman of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and Bart Stupak (D-MI), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, today launched an investigation into whether managers within the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) knowingly corrupted the scientific review process and approved or cleared medical...
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Source: Las Vegas Now A judge has just signed an order to stop the practice of medicine at the Valley Eye Center... A judge approved a petition from the state medical board seeking temporary restraining orders and injunctions against the clinic... The District Court order suspends the medical licenses of Valley Eye surgeons Doctors Stella Chou, Paul Cutarelli and Valley Eye owner Dr. Anamika Jain. The board has also accused Jain's husband, clinic administrator Dr. Vikas Jain of practicing medicine...
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Source: Las Vegas Review-Journal The lawsuit, which is expected to eventually include dozens of plaintiffs, also targets former surgeon Stella Chou, alleging that she allowed Jain to perform pre-operative tests while knowing he was not a certified laser surgeon. Dr. Vikas Jain, also known as Ken Johnson, lost his medical license in Ohio in 2005, then moved to Nevada and used his wife's medical license to open the Valley Eye Center on Tenaya Way the next year... More than 20 patients...
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is charged with ensuring safety of medical devices, such as lasers used in LASIK eye surgery. The FDA tracks problems with LASIK through its MedWatch program. Since the inception of LASIK, surgeons have downplayed or ignored complications such as chronic dry eyes and night vision difficulty (starbursts, halos, multiple images, and loss of contrast sensitivity) and have failed to report these problems to the FDA. The FDA recently affirmed that these problems are adverse...
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