"Myopia boom" refers to a predicted rise from 2.8 billion current cases worldwide to 4.8 billion by 2050. A recent study in ...

At the 44th Congress of the ESCRS in London, Mark Bullimore, PhD, MCOptom, said delaying myopia onset is more valuable than slowing its progression, and explained how to identify children most at risk ...

The American Medical Association has passed a resolution backing formal classification of myopia as a disease, including by ...

The number of people who need prescription glasses to correct their vision is increasing each year as nearsightedness, or myopia, becomes more common worldwide. Current projections suggest cases could ...

Myopia, or the need for corrected vision to focus or see objects at a distance, has become a lot more common in recent decades. Some even consider myopia, also known as nearsightedness, an epidemic.

As myopia rates climb, eyecare experts are urging clinicians to take frontline action and get ahead of the condition before it escalates to something worse. “It is a serious visual disease that ...

High myopia showed five 3D globe remodelling patterns, with focal deformation linked to greater structural complications.

Sunlight contains indigo light that indoor LEDs largely lack, and restoring it completely stopped nearsightedness in a ...

Virtual reality-based digital defocus vision training (DDVT) may be a promising adjunctive approach for pediatric myopia control, according to a study published online Aug. 27 in JAMA Ophthalmology.

Children's eyesight is steadily getting worse with one in three now short-sighted or unable to see things in the distance clearly, a global analysis suggests. The researchers say Covid lockdowns may ...

Almost half of the visual impairment in the world can be attributed to uncorrected refractive errors, and myopia constitutes a significant proportion of this problem. Myopia occurs when the focused ...

The non-profit organisation, Orbis International, and the University of Hong Kong’s Faculty of Medicine (HKUMed) ...