FDA Warns Lasik Providers about False Claims

"The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is once again cracking down on eye care professionals who make false safety claims and promises about the popular Lasik eye surgery," says the DoctorsLounge. "The agency's Letter to Eye Care Professionals, issued this week, follows an earlier warning from May of 2009. In its latest salvo against deceptive, potentially harmful advertising, the FDA is now giving eye doctors 90 days to get in line and update any advertising or promotional materials that make false claims. After this time, the agency will take regulatory action, said FDA spokeswoman Erica Jefferson." Read more.