Posit Science Giving Back: Helping OneSight Deliver Vision Care and Eyeglasses to 300+ Million People in Need

This holiday season, Posit Science is partnering with OneSight for the second year in a row, to help people get the vision care and eyeglasses they need! A percent of all purchases will be donated to OneSight.

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Posted November 18, 2010 by Sharon Delman under Odds and Ends

Posit Science Giving Back – Eyeglass Donation Drive

One of the reasons I like working at Posit Science is that they are committed to being a corporation that gives back to the community and the world at large. In November, the company donated $1 million worth of software to over 500 public libraries in Massachusetts. During the month of December, for every purchase [...]

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Posted January 21, 2010 by Karen Merzenich under Odds and Ends

Having Correctly Prescribed Glasses Improves Quality of Life

Studies have shown that nursing home residents in the United States and other industrialized countries have rates of vision problems that are 3 to 15 times higher than community-dwelling older adults. About one-third of these vision problems can be attributed to improperly prescribed glasses. Dr. Cynthia Owsley of the University of Alabama wondered if improving [...]

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Posted December 15, 2009 by Peter Delahunt under InSight, Odds and Ends, Research studies