For people who have difficulty seeing in the distance or close up, contacts remain an effective, comfortable, and almost invisible tool. The thin plastic lenses fit over your cornea — the clear, front ...

David Berntsen, Golden-Golden Professor of Optometry and chair of Clinical Sciences at the University of Houston College of Optometry, leads the BLINK Studies. Have you noticed that more children than ...

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Harvard Sylvan, OD: As our population ages there is a greater need for presbyopia-correcting contact lenses, but is there a corresponding demand? The Baby Boomers are now between 46 years old and 64 ...

Have you noticed that more children than ever are wearing glasses? Global research indicates 35% of children are affected by myopia, needing glasses to see clearly at a distance. If the trend ...

Older adults who wear multifocal contact lenses to correct problems with near vision, may have greater difficulty driving at night than their counterparts who wear glasses Older adults who wear ...

In children, high add power multifocal contact lenses significantly reduced the rate of myopia (nearsightedness) progression over 3 years compared with medium add power and single-vision lenses. The ...