Posted on 02/12/2011 8:33:57 PM PST by Nachum
In Washington, D.C., a culture that embraces regulatory oversight and rule-making and where bureaucracies are everywhere, no federal agency is more warren-like than the Food and Drug Administration, which regulates the safety and efficacy of food, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics and medical devices.
The health and well-being of every American depends on the FDA's rigorous collecting, sifting and interpreting of data to approve products ranging from those that cure nail fungus to devices that electronically zap the brain to relieve anxiety. FDA regulators are scientist bureaucrats who tirelessly navigate the tedious but essential world between reports and medicine in a poorly lit building with very narrow hallways. They do important work, but FDA scientists don't always get it right.
This is a story about one scientist haunted by what, he fears, was a bad decision. Between 1996 and 2000, the scientist, Dr. Morris Waxler, was chief of the FDA's Diagnostic and Surgical Devices Branch and in charge of approving the LASIK medical device to restore visual acuity. And now, Waxler thinks that the FDA's standards were not tough enough. In 2008, an FDA advisory panel was urged by unhappy patients to re-evaluate the long-term effects of LASIK surgery and around the same time, patients began contacting him personally to report bad outcomes, including blurred and double vision.
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“for a few years, anyway, you WILL have to wear reading glasses later on, no matter what), “
You really do not know what you are talking about. Not everyone experiences hardening of the inner lense as to require reading glasses. I know plenty of elderly people that do not require reading glasses. Even at my age I still don’t.
Mrs. Slim got it over a decade ago and it was good for most of that time. Still needed reading glasses. However, she recently had cataract surgery and despite glowing reports from others, it did not clear up her vision as much as she would have liked.
Presbyopia is considered a universal age-related affliction. Not by me, but by practioners of vision related specialties.
I have no idea how old you are, or what your vision condition is; there are many reasons you may not need to wear reading glasses just yet, even if you are of the age (40 - 50) where symptoms start to manifest.
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