The challenge of truly helping the poor of the developing world can often appear daunting which is where one far-seeing doctor comes in. More than one in three people in the United States wears ...

Just like most parts of the human body, our eyes have a tendency to get worse with age. You might take your ability to focus for granted now, but that could change once you hit late middle age and ...

A significant part of the human population wears glasses (or will need to wear them in the future). Most glasses or bifocals have a maximum of two focuses, one for each lens. This has been the way of ...

OXFORD, England — Joshua Silver remembers the first day he helped a man see. Henry Adjei-Mensah, a tailor in Ghana, could no longer see well enough to thread the needle of his sewing machine. He was ...

OXFORD, England -- Joshua Silver, a lifelong tinkerer, was fiddling around one day with a cheap, water-filled lens he'd built as an optics experiment when he noticed something interesting. By adding ...

June 3, 2016 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google If your glasses need serious adjustment, take them to a professional, but there’s a lot you can do to make yours ...

Companies such as Focus on Vision have developed glasses with specially designed lenses that are adjusted by sliding them back and forth.<br /> <br /> But according to Silver, Child ViSion glasses are ...

I’ve been fortunate enough that my eyes allow me to see my world clearly without the need for corrective vision (although I do wear computer glasses so working on my laptop all day isn’t so straining ...

Engineers often quote a version of the same mantra: If a ridiculous solution solves a problem, then it's not ridiculous. University of Utah researchers have developed a prototype for a pair of "smart ...