eyeglasses News Archive

09-Feb-2009

 

  • Does This Computer Come in Size 6? (ABC News)
    Interactive fashion lets customers wear devices on their sleeves.


  • Canadian walks for world peace for kids (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
    MANILA, Philippines?Canadian Jean Beliveau suffered a midlife crisis eight years ago and decided to walk away from his job in neon signs. He hasn?t stopped walking since.


  • Pregnancy Has No Impact On Breast Cancer, But Can Delay Diagnosis And Treatment (PhysOrg)
    (PhysOrg.com) -- A new study finds women who develop breast cancer while pregnant or soon afterwards do not experience any differences in disease severity or likelihood of survival compared to other women with breast cancer. The study is published in the March 15, 2009 issue of CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society.


  • Burns: Faith, hope and trust can still pay off (Houston Chronicle)
    Welcome to the operating room. It is one of the many acts of care set up all around the world by Medical Ministries International.


  • Once one herself, volunteer of the year helps special ed students (The Gainesville Sun)
    At Rawlings Elementary, a class of special education students was in the middle of a reading exercise.


  • Susan Braudy: Mugging, Thrift, and Urban Altruism (HuffingtonPost)
    MUGGING, THRIFT, AND URBAN ATRUISM Here's a riddle: how did I get mugged, overhear a tv executive get fired by cell-phone, and get called...


  • False teeth take bite out of prison budget (Edmonton Sun)
    Canada's prison service is spending millions of taxpayer dollars on everything from dentures to prosthetic limbs.


  • Physicist's vision for helping world's poor: self-adjusting eyeglasses (PhysOrg)
    Joshua Silver, a lifelong tinkerer, was fiddling around one day with a cheap, water-filled lens he'd built as an optics experiment when he noticed something interesting.


  • Discounted health care available in region (The Buffalo News)
    Western New Yorkers without health insurance can now get discounted health services at five regional hospitals and urgent-care centers throughout the region that participate in a new electronic network.


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