MD Works to Save Sight with VisionSpring

"If you have trouble seeing or reading up close after age 40 -- a common complaint -- the solution is simple: Just pick up a pair of readers at the drug store for a few dollars," according to ABCNews. "But what if there weren't any reading glasses you could buy, and suddenly you could no longer do your job or read a book because you couldn't see? That's the case for millions of people in the developing world, where loss of near vision after age 40 means the difference between being able to support their family or going hungry.But now a New York ophthalmologist named Dr. Jordan Kasselow is working to change that, with a nonprofit group called VisionSpring that offers inexpensive reading glasses, the kind you find at American drugstores, to thousands of trained health workers in developing countries so they can sell them at affordable rates to their community." Read and see more.