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Site Links to Non-Profit and Research Facilities such as Ophthalmic and Medical Associations and Universities. (March 26, 1998)

Price, Payment Options, Patient Financing
A new section on price, payment options and patient financing.

Night Vision - www.cscrs.org/html/press_release.html
For information about "Night Vision" please view the Canadian Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons Press Release

Press Release - October 21, 2002, Alcon’s LADARVision Approved by FDA for Customized LASIK Surgery

Press Release - June 4, 2001, Nidek Receives Amended Medical Device License from Health Canada - Surgeons can now treat farsighted patients

Press Release - September 26, 2000, LADARVision® System Receives FDA Approval for Farsightedness With Astigmatism Correction Using LASIK and for Mixed Astigmatism Using LASIK

Press Release - June 30, 2000, FDA Approves Sunrise Technologies Hyperion™ LTK System

Press Release - January 24, 2000, Summit Technology Medical Advisory Board Member Michael Gordon, MD To Perform Laser Vision Correction Procedure Using Breakthrough Eye-Tracking Laser Technology

Press Release - November 1, 1999, Autonomous LASIK Hyperopic PMA Accepted For Filing By FDA

Press Release - October 15, 1999, First Human Laser Vision Correction Surgery using Autonomous CustomCornea® Wavefront Technology performed by Marguerite McDonald, MD.

Press Release - July 26, 1999, FDA Panel Recommends Approval of Summit Laser for Widest Ranges of Myopia and Astigmatism with LASIK

Press Release - April 29, 1999, Summit Technology Acquires Autonomous Technologies Corporation

Press Release - December 23, 1998, Summit Technology, Inc. Receives 510k Clearance To Market Krumeich-Barraquer Microkeratome In The United States

Press Release - November 3, 1998, FDA Approves Autonomous Technologies' LADARVision™ System - Company Announces U.S. Product Launch

Press Release -March 12, 1998, FDA Approves Summit's Emphasis™ Disc to Treat Myopic Astigmatism

Press Release - June 24, 1997, Visx Receives FDA Approval to Treat Myopic Astigmatism

Surgery for Hyperopia and Presbyopia - Edited by Dr. Neal A Sher. A new textbook on the Surgery for Hyperopia and Presbyopia, the first book dedicated to this topic, which was published in 1997 by Williams and Wilkins.
November 18, 1997


Bulletin - The Excise/GST News (Summer 1996) -
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