eyeglasses News Archive

10-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.


  • 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.


  • Cases of Age-Related Farsightedness to Soar (HealthDay via Yahoo! News)
    TUESDAY, Dec. 9 (HealthDay News) -- More than 1 billion people worldwide had age-related farsightedness -- called presbyopia -- in 2005.


  • Thousands of Wash. kids waiting for new eyeglasses (The Olympian)
    Thousands of children who are enrolled in the state's Medicaid program have waited months for new eyeglasses.


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