A man seriously injured in a May 31 house explosion filed a lawsuit against the City of San Antonio and CPS Energy two days after the blast. Read full article: ‘I knew something was going to happen’: ...

The results of a new clinical trial may provide more hope for children with myopia, commonly known as nearsightedness. The study found that kids as young as 7 who regularly wore powerful bifocal ...

Kids suffering from nearsightedness can slow the progression of their myopia by using soft bifocal contact lenses, a new trial shows. Bifocal contacts with a powerful corrective prescription slowed ...

Optometrist George F. Tsuetaki, 68, a pioneer in contact lenses, developed a new computer-lathed bifocal contact lens and a new lens material, Fluorex 700. He was the founder and owner of Fused ...

Foster City resident Rosalind Chin had been taking her son, Shawn, to get stronger glasses every six months since he was 3 years old. At age 10, Shawn, whose nearsightedness had increasingly blurred ...

In the CONTROL study, distance center bifocal contact lenses offered greater control over myopia progression and axial elongation compared to many published results with multifocal spectacles, ...

For people who have difficulty seeing in the distance or close up, contacts remain an effective, comfortable, and almost invisible tool. The thin plastic lenses fit over your cornea — the clear, front ...

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 ...

Richard Camp, a longtime Houston optician who developed an early bifocal contact lens, died Wednesday. He was 82. A native of Greenville, S.C., he moved to Houston in the late 1940s, where he operated ...

Children who wore high-power bifocal contacts had less worsening of myopia. By Nicholas Bakalar Wearing bifocal contact lenses may slow the progression of nearsightedness in children, a new study in ...