Rachel Fairbank is a freelance science writer based in Texas. When she is not writing, she can be found spending time with her family, or at her local boxing gym. Staying safe during a pandemic means ...

Making time to catch the latest Netflix hit? Easy. Making time to visit the eye doctor? Surprisingly difficult. Enter: Online eye exams — because if you can do it from your couch, why wouldn’t you?

Getting new glasses has always been an at least partly offline experience. You can order frames and even lenses online — if you have the results of a recent eye exam handy. But at some point you have ...

Opternative, a Chicago-based purveyor of online and mobile refractive eye exams, received a warning letter from the FDA last fall. The October 30 warning letter was only recently made public by the ...

I was about eight years old when I first got glasses. My mum had noticed me starting to shuffle ever closer towards the television, squinting at the screen, to watch Pokemon. I was reading Jacqueline ...

Around 60% of people wear glasses, which means regular trips to the eye doctor to monitor or maintain your prescription. But what if you can't afford to go to the doctor? Or can't commit to going in ...

In our modern world, you can get basically everything online. That includes glasses, but in order to purchase glasses online, you do need a current prescription. For this and any eye concerns, you ...

All sorts of health information is now a few taps away on your smartphone, from how many steps you take — to how well you sleep at night. But what if you could use your phone and a computer to test ...

Ladderworks is a publishing startup of diverse picture books with the mission to empower over a million kids to become social entrepreneurs. Our current series features interviews, by a character ...

South Carolinians who wear glasses or contact lenses will have to continue getting fitted for a new prescription at a ...