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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
NPR's Scott Simon speaks with retired Oxford University professor Joshua Silver, who has developed inexpensive self-adjusting eyeglasses for use in underdeveloped countries. Joshua Silver wants to ...