Scott Hyver Visioncare slapped with FDA warning letter

From a 12/18/2012 FDA press release: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today warned five eye care providers to stop the misleading advertising and promotion of refractive lasers used in eye surgery procedures such as LASIK. The FDA found that the providers’ advertisements and promotional materials did not offer consumers adequate information about associated risks, […]

Rand Eye Institute slapped with FDA warning letter

From a 12/18/2012 FDA press release: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today warned five eye care providers to stop the misleading advertising and promotion of refractive lasers used in eye surgery procedures such as LASIK. The FDA found that the providers’ advertisements and promotional materials did not offer consumers adequate information about associated risks, […]

Eye Center of Texas slapped with FDA warning letter

January 14, 2013 From a 12/18/2012 FDA press release: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today warned five eye care providers to stop the misleading advertising and promotion of refractive lasers used in eye surgery procedures such as LASIK. The FDA found that the providers’ advertisements and promotional materials did not offer consumers adequate information […]

Woolfson Eye Institute slapped with FDA warning letter

January 14, 2013 From a 12/18/2012 FDA press release: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today warned five eye care providers to stop the misleading advertising and promotion of refractive lasers used in eye surgery procedures such as LASIK. The FDA found that the providers’ advertisements and promotional materials did not offer consumers adequate information […]

FDA ‘Has Moral Obligation’ to Intervene in Suicide

Reprinted with permission from www.fdaweb.com 7/25/2012 CDRH director Jeff Shuren was told 7/24 he has a “moral, if not a legal, obligation to follow up directly” with a patient who told his Center in a 6/6 MedWatch report that “I intend to end my life soon” because of LASIK-related eye injury. The plea came in […]

LasikPlus Vision Center, FDA warning letter 4/3/12

APR 3, 2012 WARNING LETTER VIA UNITED PARCEL SERVICE Ms. Casi Cleaveland Regional Director LasikPlus Vision Center 200 Galleria Parkway Suite 200 Atlanta, Georgia 30339 Dear Ms. Cleaveland: During an inspection of your firm located in Atlanta, Georgia, on October 5-6, 2011, an investigator from the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) determined that […]

LASIK Founder Files NDA for LASIK Injury-healing Drug

Reprinted with permission from www.fdaweb.com 03/09/2012 David Muller, who as founder and CEO of Summit Technology gained in 1996 the first excimer laser approval for the controversial LASIK vision correction surgical procedure, announced 3/8 the submission of an NDA for VibeX (riboflavin ophthalmic solution)/KXL System to be used in treating corneal damage often associated with […]

Dr. Kim Robbins, MD, Robbins Eye Center complaint

December 31, 2011 On 12/27/2011, the LASIK industry watchdog group, LASIK Surgery Watch (LSW), sent a letter to the FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health requesting “that the FDA take immediate action to stop deceptive and misleading advertising of LASIK by Kim Robbins, M.D.” The letter, addressed to Steven Silverman, Director of the Office […]

FDA Warns Against Illegal LASIK Ads Again

Reprinted with permission from www.fdaweb.com 09/28/2011 FDA Warns Against Illegal LASIK Ads — Again Despite a 5/22/09 letter to eye care professionals cautioning against inappropriate advertising and promotion of FDA-approved lasers used in refractive procedures such as LASIK, FDA says it continues to receive information concerning improper promotion and advertising practices by eye care professionals. […]

LASIK Patients Ask Hamburg’s Help on Petition

August 16, 2011 Reprinted with permission from www.fdaweb.com LASIK Patients Ask Hamburg’s Help on Deferred Petition 08/16/2011 While CDRH defers a decision on a petition from former staffer Morris Waxler to withdraw the LASIK indication from ophthalmic laser approvals, injured LASIK patients yesterday sent commissioner Margaret Hamburg a 504-signatory petition in support and asking her […]