eyeglasses News Archive

09-Dec-2008

 

  • Millions need eyeglasses but don't have them-study (AlertNet)
    Source: Reuters CHICAGO, Dec 8 (Reuters) - More than 1 billion people globally suffer from a condition in which the eye's lens loses flexibility, blurring objects close by, and half of them do not own eyeglasses to ...


  • Thousands of Wash. kids waiting for new eyeglasses (Seattle Times)
    Nine-year-old Kiera Williams is among thousands of Washington children enrolled in the state's Medicaid program who have waited months for new eyeglasses.


  • New Braunfels man, 74, reported missing (San Antonio Express-News & KENS 5)
    New Braunfels police are searching for a missing 74-year-old man who was last seen leaving his house to drive his damaged car to a repair shop.


  • Metropolitan Diary (New York Times)
    A cyclist makes a connection on his regular predawn bike ride.


  • Thousands of Wash. kids waiting for new eyeglasses (KING5 Seattle)
    Some children have been without glasses since the start of the school year, prompting doctors and educators to worry about vision problems and obstacles to learning.


  • Millions need eyeglasses but don't have them (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
    More than 1 billion people globally suffer from a condition in which the eye's lens loses flexibility, blurring objects close by, and half of them do not own eyeglasses to help them see, researchers said on Monday.


  • Thousands of kids waiting for new eyeglasses (KOMO Seattle)
    The glasses backlog in the state can be traced to new security protocols and computer software at the Airway Heights Corrections Center. At the center, inmates work in a state-run optical lab to make every lens and frame for poor people served by the state's subsidized insurance program.


  • Japanese women stick to extensions for lusher lashes (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
    From twentysomethings trying to emulate wide-eyed manga heroines to middle-aged housewives seeking an elegant look that lasts, Japanese women are fluttering the latest in luscious lashes -- and they're artificial.


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