Vision Van Flies to Japan

"A state-of-the-art mobile eye clinic, transported by air from Miami, began offering much-needed services Friday in northeastern Japan for people with eye diseases and ailments who had no access to care after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami," reports MainichiDailyNews. "Vision Van, a large bus equipped with a comprehensive examination room, three screening stations, a waiting room and advanced ophthalmic equipment, will tour the tsunami-devastated coastal communities for three months, as its owner, the University of Miami's Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, has agreed to lend it for free."