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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The first and only monthly Water Gradient multifocal contact lens — feels like nothing even at day 301 Provides excellent visual acuity at all distances, near through far, with Alcon’s proven ...

According to a clinical study funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), multifocal contact lenses were able to slow down and control the worsening of nearsightedness in children. Multifocal ...

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 ...