If you are over age 40, you are either wearing bifocals or squinting to read this print. On this day in 1785, Benjamin Franklin invented bifocals, a fixture that has been a part of my life over four ...

FOR the past several months, prior to last week, whenever I started to read a book—or, for that matter, a magazine, a newspaper, or the monthly letter of the National City Bank—I felt as though my ...

Today’s featherweight plastic contact lenses are invaluable to many nearsighted and farsighted people. But those who need bifocal correction still cannot use them. Reason: it is useless to place a ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A prescription for bifocals may help children with rapidly worsening nearsightedness maintain better vision, a new study suggests. Children with nearsightedness, or myopia, ...