Picture this: Your contact lenses are running low, and you soon realize that your last prescription has expired. With a busy week ahead, squeezing in a visit to the eye doctor would be a struggle.

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 ...

Hate schlepping to the doctor to get a prescription for your glasses or contact lenses? There’s a new site for that. Opternative allows you to take an eye exam using just your computer — at home. The ...

A computer and smartphone is all you need if you want to take a test for glasses or contact lenses as a growing number of companies are offering online vision screenings. One fact needs to be made ...

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 ...

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 ...

Online eye examinations are currently allowed in 37 states, but some of those states are moving toward limiting or banning them under pressure from optometric associations. For instance, under heavy ...