Laser Eye Surgery Costs

The cost of laser eye surgery is not always transparent, especially if you are trying to compare different clinics. You have to trust the clinic with your laser eye surgery treatment, but there's no reason why it shouldn't be at an affordable price.

What is the cost of laser eye surgery?

The answer to this question depends on which clinic you ask. The cost of laser eye surgery is very difficult to predict for any patient who is seeking laser vision correction.

One key reason is that different clinics operate different ‘business and marketing’ models.

All clinics have to offer a minimum standard of care and treatment as laid out by the Care Quality Commission. But this only really covers the direct aspects of running a clinic and protection for the patient. The other areas concern marketing and advertising, overheads, technology, diagnostic equipment and staffing.

Dental and Vision Insurance- Excellent Package

Discover the benefits of dental and vision insurance package deal. How and where to get it?

For most of us who work and get medical benefits through our employer, once a year we are asked to select an insurance plans as part of our health benefits. Every year we are also given a choice to add coverage for dental and vision insurance.

Some employers may not provide the coverage for both dental and vision coverage but in some cases they may cover up to a certain amounts or some basic services. For example federal employees have their own federal employees dental and vision insurance program.

Normally since we go along with the employers group insurance provider we may be able to get a discount rate for vision and dental plans.

A Great Place To Meet Women

There are several places to meet women where the atmosphere is right for forming a connection (it doesn't include bars and night clubs). This article goes into specifics about where the best places are to meet women who would be more open to meeting men.

What constitutes a great place to meet women? Here's a hint: It's not a bar. Women do not really like meeting men in bars or clubs. It may seem like these would be great places to meet women but women are not really open to advances in any form in these particular settings. Many women only see men in bars as generic partiers that are really only after one thing.

'Nonsense' science article offered publication -- for a fee

Using a bit of mischief, researchers at Cornell University and the New England Journal of Medicine have exposed the dangers of open access scientific journals after they were able to get a nonsensical article past editors of the Open Information Science Journal recently.

All they had to do was submit an $800 (US) "access fee" to the journal, blogger Bob Grant said in his blog for The Scientist magazine.

Philip Davis, a PhD student in scientific communications at Cornell University, and Kent Anderson, executive director of international business and product development at the New England Journal of Medicine, submitted the fake manuscript to The Open Information Science Journal (TOISCIJ) at the end of January. Image:

Ghostwriting documents a wealth of information

Court documents put online last week by PLoS Medicine give the public an unprecedented look into the world of academic publishing and the extent to which big drug companies used ghostwriters to market their products.

The 1,500 documents -- internal memos, meeting agendas and minutes, project tracking report, faxes, cover letters, draft manuscripts and more -- detail the efforts by Wyeth Pharmaceuticals to use top academic journals as marketing tools for its hormone replacement therapy drugs, and to enlist top researchers from around the world to be "authors" of the studies.

The documents were made public last month after PLoS and the New York Times convinced a US court ot unseal documents in a lawsuit to release them to the public. PLoS put them all online last Friday.

Pfizer Canada facing two conflict fights

Drug giant Pfizer Canada finds itself at the centre of two conflict of interest controversies after one of its executives was appointed to the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and it signed a deal to provide $780,000 for the Canadian Medical Association to set up educational programs for doctors.

The controversies have also touched the Canadian Medical Association, which is coming under fire for taking $780,000 from Pfizer to set up the education programs.

My feeling is that the pharmaceutical industry has no business at all educating doctors,” said Arnold Relman, professor emeritus at Harvard Medical School and former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine. “There's no question that if you're paying the piper, you influence the tune that the piper is going to play.