The results of a new clinical trial may provide more hope for children with myopia, commonly known as nearsightedness. The study found that kids as young as 7 who regularly wore powerful bifocal ...

Kids suffering from nearsightedness can slow the progression of their myopia by using soft bifocal contact lenses, a new trial shows. Bifocal contacts with a powerful corrective prescription slowed ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Young nearsighted kids who wear bifocal contact lenses that slow uncoordinated eye growth do not lose the benefits of the treatment once they stop wearing the lenses, new research ...

Today’s featherweight plastic contact lenses are invaluable to many nearsighted and farsighted people. But those who need bifocal correction still cannot use them. Reason: it is useless to place a ...

An Ohio State University spinoff has raised $6 million to advance development of its bifocal and multifocal contact lenses that the company says perform as well as eyeglasses – and better than ...

I can see clearly now the blur is gone, I can see all obstacles in my way, gone are the blurry days where I felt blind, it's gonna be a bright, bright sunshinin' day. This is you if you have had the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Treatment effect was not lost after discontinuing multifocal lens wear in late teenage years. The findings ...

Capping ten years of work to stem the tide of nearsightedness, David Berntsen, Golden-Golden Professor of Optometry and chair of Clinical Sciences at the University of Houston College of Optometry, is ...

Richard Camp, a longtime Houston optician who developed an early bifocal contact lens, died Wednesday. He was 82. A native of Greenville, S.C., he moved to Houston in the late 1940s, where he operated ...

CORRECTION: Two quotes in this article were incorrectly attributed to Dr. Greg Ray. He did not make statements about diabetes or about the use of vitamin C. For some seniors, the "golden years" are ...