PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - Eyewear professionals in Philadelphia were getting a first look today at a new, high-tech type of bifocal eyeglasses. These aren't your Ben Franklin bifocals. A Virginia-based ...

Presbyopia is a visual defect which affects many people over 40 years old, including myself. As we cannot focus on close objects, we tend to rely on bifocal glasses. But with bifocals, the two parts ...

For children diagnosed with worsening myopia, bifocals might be a better choice than standard lenses for nearsightedness; researchers have found that the condition doesn’t seem to progress as rapidly ...

Bifocal glasses can prove effective in slowing down the progression of myopia in children with high rates of progression, according to a new study. Bifocals-glasses with two different corrective ...

As we get older, our eyes get worse. That’s just a fact of life. It is a rite of passage the first time you leave the eye doctor with a script for “progressive” lenses which are just fancy bifocals.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Many of us talk to patients with cataract about the opportunity to choose a “lifestyle” lens that offers them ...

Bye-bye bifocals. A new pair of smart glasses from the University of Utah may have just eliminated the need for spectacles. According to researchers, these new smart glasses come with liquid lenses ...

LOS ANGELES — For children diagnosed with worsening myopia, bifocals might be a better choice than standard lenses for nearsightedness, say researchers, who have found that the condition doesn’t seem ...

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 ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Norman Swan: Could it be that having fancier lenses in your spectacles can make you less steady on your ...