Your vision may change as you age. You’ll know it’s happening when have to hold your favorite book, the daily newspaper, or a restaurant menu farther away just to read it. This is called presbyopia.

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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Benjamin Franklin is generally credited with the invention of bifocals, and the basic technology hasn't much changed for 300 years. Traditional bifocal eyeglasses all basically have a lens that's ...

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.

SAN DIEGO — Progressive-addition lenses are more likely than bifocals to improve mobility and balance in older people, according to a poster presentation at the American Academy of Optometry meeting ...

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Most adults over 45 experience at least some degree of presbyopia. Presbyopia is a common variant of farsightedness affecting over 128 million people in the US, including the majority of adults over ...