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 ...

Contact lenses have come a long way and offer some exciting options. You can bat a pair of baby blues one day, then flash golden tiger eyes the next. You can even ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In the CONTROL study, distance center bifocal contact lenses offered greater control over myopia progression and ...

(NewsUSA) - Patrick Findle's vision problems started slowly. "Once in a while I felt more comfortable reading when I took my glasses off and held whatever it was close to my face," said Findle. "Then ...

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 ...

Foster City resident Rosalind Chin had been taking her son, Shawn, to get stronger glasses every six months since he was 3 years old. At age 10, Shawn, whose nearsightedness had increasingly blurred ...

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 ...

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 ...

Children who wore high-power bifocal contacts had less worsening of myopia. By Nicholas Bakalar Wearing bifocal contact lenses may slow the progression of nearsightedness in children, a new study in ...

A new study suggests that older adults who wear multifocal contact lenses to correct problems with near vision, a very common condition that increases with age, may have greater difficulty driving at ...

Children wearing multifocal contact lenses had slower progression of their myopia, according to new results. The findings support an option for controlling the condition, also called nearsightedness, ...

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 ...