Today on The Health Report, is there a prospect of being able to throw away reading glasses and bifocals? |
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Handing the packet to her, he shut his bag, and the nurse slipped on a pair of bifocals that had been hanging around her neck by a thin chain. |
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So now, without my bifocals, I can barely read a menu without getting a headache. |
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Donald needs exciting and imaginative new policies, new advisors, new bifocals, the lot. |
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One pastor went into the pulpit one Sunday morning wearing a pair of new bifocals. |
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Franklin invented the lightning rod, bifocals, the Franklin stove, and an artificial arm. |
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In 1760, Benjamin Franklin instructed a London firm to make him spectacles with two types of lenses fitted together, thus inventing bifocals. |
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Her beady eyes narrow and her caterpillar brows furrow together over the thick rims of her bifocals. |
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He stared at Laurie over his bifocals, his balding head gleaming in the afternoon sun coming through the bay window at the end of the foyer. |
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He put on a pair of glasses with clear, thick lenses that looked like bifocals. |
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So our aim is to restore the ability to change the focus in older people, so that they don't need reading glasses or bifocals. |
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The plastic marvel even had a sort of visor that folded out to keep the drops off Marge's thick bifocals. |
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She had mousy brown hair with gray streaks pulled up into a tight bun, and she wore a pair of small bifocals. |
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The doctor looked at me again over his bifocals as he wrote something in his book. |
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Now he was a greying elder, spectacled in thick bifocals, wrinkled in his once handsome features, and knotted and veined in limbs. |
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I watched him set frameless bifocals on the end of his nose. |
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He was a short, stout man who had long ago lost most of his hair and now had to keep his thick bifocals on a string around his neck or else he'd lose them too. |
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For instance, the first time you don a new pair of bifocals, there is a difference in what you perceive visually and what your hand does when you go to reach for something. |
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For me, the progressive or no-line bifocals have worked for years because you can position your head to bring objects into sharp focus at almost any distance. |
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I rang the bell, and a geeky, middle-aged man in bifocals stuck his head around the door. |
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Traditionally, most vision problems have been corrected with single vision lenses or, for presbyopia, bifocals and trifocals. |
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More comfortable and efficient, progressive lenses are gradually replacing bifocals and trifocals for the correction of presbyopia. |
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If you wear bifocals, trifocals, or progressive addition lenses, do you avoid tilting your head back to see the monitor? |
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Trifocals and new designs in bifocals were later introduced, including the Franklin bifocal revived in one-piece form. |
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Thanks to their growing popularity, progressive lenses now outsell bifocals. |
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He invented the lightning rod, bifocals, the Franklin stove, a carriage odometer and the glass armonica. |
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They may allow you to stay in your contacts instead of moving to reading glasses or bifocals. |
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These contact lenses are an alternative to bifocals or reading glasses for people with presbyopia. |
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In 1784 Benjamin Franklin invented bifocals, dividing his lenses for distant and near vision, the split parts being held together by the frame. |
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Cemented bifocals were invented in 1884, and the fused and one-piece types followed in 1908 and 1910, respectively. |
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We need a set of economic bifocals, if you will, to see the impact of current events, as well as the best path to future prosperity. |
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If unsuccessful, the frames used to fit the bifocals should be used to make reading glasses. |
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Trial of bifocals: Clients should attempt full time wear of bifocals for a period of three months. |
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This new refractive procedure is capable of reducing or even eliminating the need for bifocals or reading glasses for certain categories of patients. |
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He looked at me curiously over his bifocals, a sly smile on his face. |
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And if you wear bifocals or trifocals, keep in mind that you may have a tendency to tilt your head backwards so that you can see through the lower portion of your glasses. |
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Scopes also help mature shooters continue in the sport longer, he said, because finding iron sights through bifocals and trifocals can be challenging. |
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I needed a pair of computer glasses as my bifocals cause me to have to get stiffnecked online looking down on the computer through the reading lenses. |
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Other important issues, such as incomplete correction of hypermetropia by refractive surgery and problems using bifocals with vertical restrictive strabismus, should be noted. |
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But some people may prefer bifocals customized for computer and desk work. |
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If you wear bifocals, trifocals, or progressive addition lenses, you may find that you need to assume an awkward posture to use your glasses at the computer. |
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Practice with new bifocals or trifocals while the car is stationary to develop proper head and eye movement for near and distance viewing, using mirrors and checking the instrument panel. |
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The doctor said the glasses were good for people with presbyopia, an inability to focus, especially on items that are close, which is often addressed with bifocals or trifocals. |
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She decided to try Acuvue bifocals when she was told her eyesight was failing. |
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When it comes to biotechnology, he keeps his bifocals on. |
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He was a prolific inventor, whose inventions ran the gamut from his trademark bifocals to the Franklin stove to artificial fertilizer. |
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On the other hand, the use of bifocals can be difficult for people with central scotomas and eccentric viewing. |
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He has early cataracts and wears bifocals. |
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They also adapt to their new lenses extremely quickly, a factor that may prompt more and more people to shift from unifocals and bifocals to progressive lenses. |
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You often find that some patients have inadvertently been using monovision because of refractive changes and so may be less happy when refitted with multifocals or bifocals. |
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Today, Americans spend close to a billion dollars a year at the nation's nearly 13,000 optical stores for contact lenses and eyeglasses, including bifocals. |
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