eyeglasses News Archive

05-Oct-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.


  • Lions Club, city recycling center partner to collect used eyeglasses (Portsmouth Herald)
    PORTSMOUTH and#8212; Residents may now recycle prescription eyeglasses, reading glasses and non-prescription sunglasses by placing them in specially marked collection boxes at the recycling center .


  • Change and Outrage at the Bus Station That Time Forgot (New York Times)
    Owners and workers at some of the businesses in the George Washington Bridge Bus Station expressed uncertainty and frustration over a planned renovation.


  • A Man of Many Talents, Eager to Use Them All (New York Times)
    Caleb Burhans is part of a new generation that doesn?t feel compelled to specialize and works easily in classical, rock and much in between.


  • Coffee Break: Get your own pair of Palin eyeglasses (Memphis Commercial Appeal)
    Still searching for a pair of those Sarah Palin specs?


  • Proper Use and Care More Important than New Lens Types for Contact Lens Infection Prevention (Science Daily)
    Contact lenses are a good alternative to eyeglasses, but are not entirely risk free. Even with today's improved designs, a small but significant number of contact lens wearers develop painful microbial infections of the cornea (microbial keratitis, or MK) that can cause vision loss.


  • Downey: Cubs needed a rewrite from Hollywood (The Pantagraph)
    LOS ANGELES -- Well, thanks for watching, Chicago. Very sorry, Ron Santo. Too bad, Ernie Banks. Looks like it?s Groundhog Day all over again, Bill Murray. We know you?ve seen this before with those huge eyeglasses, Harry Caray, even from way up there where you are. | LIVE: MLB scoreboard | MLB page


  • Wal-Mart lab cited for health hazard (The Columbus Dispatch)
    Workers at a Lockbourne Wal-Mart lab that makes eyeglasses might have been exposed to unhealthy levels of a lens-cleaning chemical, according to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.


  • Death of a ?beautiful mind? (Boulder Daily Camera)
    Michi Nakata broke the lenses of her eyeglasses and slashed her wrist, fingers and neck. She used the blood from her incisions to pen a suicide note.


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