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ASCRS NEWS
EyeWorld celebrates its 25th anniversary
EyeWorld launches
October 1996
1999
LASIK receives
FDA approval
2003
First accommodative IOL
receives FDA approval
(Crystalens, Bausch + Lomb)
2006
Technique and term Descemet's
stripping automated endothelial
keratoplasty (DSAEK) and
Descemet's membrane
endothelial keratoplasty (DMEK)
described
2005
First diffractive IOL
approved by FDA
(ReSTOR, Alcon)
Stephen Lane, MD
Chief Medical Editor
2004–2011
Marguerite McDonald, MD
Chief Medical Editor
1996–2004
Stephen Obstbaum, MD
Chief Medical Editor
2002–2011
2001
FDA approves laser-
assisted corneal flap
creation (IntraLase)
2002
Wavefront-guided
LASIK approved
