eyeglasses News Archive

09-Nov-2008

 

  • Vision Correction Procedure Hits a Milestone (Carteret County News-Times)
    (ARA) - More than 150 million Americans, or approximately 50 percent of the U.S. population, require eyeglasses or contact lenses to correct common vision problems. For these people, waking up in bed and reaching over to the nightstand for eye glasses is a normal ritual.


  • AAO-SOE Joint Meeting research highlights (EurekAlert!)
    ( American Academy of Ophthalmology ) Today's scientific program includes reports on a potential biomarker for age-related macular degeneration that may also imply common biological signaling mechanisms for general aging and AMD, and on positive results in keratoconus patients treated with a promising technique, corneal collagen crosslinking.


  • New York's a blue state: Yankee blue, that is (Seattle Times)
    Barack Obama, meet the Bronx Bombers. "Barack Obama signifies hope," wrote William McGee of the New York Daily News. "Not over the economic...


  • Death becomes him: JI reporter gets a zombie makeover (Journal Inquirer)
    There is absolutely no such thing as too much fake blood. This is one of many lessons I took with me after the Hartford Stage Company successfully transformed me from happy-go-lucky reporter into the kind of creature that goes bump in the night.


  • Spaghetti supper Saturday at St. Charles Parish Center (Journal Gazette & Times-Courier)
    CHARLESTON ?? A community spaghetti supper will be held Saturday at St. Charles Borromeo Parish Center, 9th Street and Madison Avenue in Charleston.


  • Visit to Cuba brings to life hardships endured by people who live there (Miami Herald)
    Take Me With You. Carlos Frias. Atria. 304 pages. $25. If you're a Cuban-American with even tenuous ties to the island, at one point or another your blood has boiled, perhaps when a well-fed Castro defender with the freedom to speak his mind on any U.S. street corner tries to convince you that Cubans on the island have it so much better, thanks to the revolution. Or maybe when you watch a ...


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