After a prescription leaves the optometrist's office, how are eyeglasses actually made to order? Larry Enright, general manager of Perferx Optical, talks about the shaping, sanding, polishing, cutting ...

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 ...

April 15, 2006 The end is nigh for bifocals, and not a moment too soon. Optical scientists at the University of Arizona have developed new switchable, flat, liquid crystal diffractive eyeglass lenses ...

Read on for all the information you’ll need to buy your perfect pair of reading glasses, along with a few recommendations.

I used the "B" word, and was gently corrected: "They’re called ‘progressive lenses’ now. We don’t call them bifocals any more." I’ve known for a year that my first pair was coming, because reading the ...

THERE are over four billion adults across the globe wearing glasses, and they surely have someone to thank for such a discovery that helps those with sight problems to see better. Let's take a look at ...

If you need different pairs of glasses for seeing different things (say, reading vs. distance) or wear bifocals or progressive lenses, the future is looking bright: Someone has invented a pair of ...

Broadcast Retirement Network's Jeffrey Snyder discusses treatments for presbyopia with the American Academy of ...

When our vision starts fading, glasses or contact lenses (or laser surgery!) are a simple cure. But for NASA astronauts working in the near weightlessness of a space environment, it's not that easy.