Myopia, or nearsightedness, is on the rise among children due to increased screen time and reduced outdoor exposure. Dr ...

Myopia isn’t an infectious disease, but it has reached nearly epidemic proportions in parts of Asia. In Taiwan, for example, the percentage of 7-year-old children suffering from nearsightedness ...

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.

According to a study published in 2024 in the American Medical Association's Journal of Ophthalmology, 79% of children and ...

Myopia currently affects 2.56 billion people worldwide and is projected to affect 3.4 billion people by 2030, if current trends remain unchanged. *1 Myopia increases the risk of developing sight ...

Today children in East Asia, including Japan, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, and Singapore, develop myopia at a high rate; for example, 96.5% of 19-year-old males suffer from myopia in ...

In 2010, for example, Morgan’s collaborators found that exposure to bright light could reverse this type of induced myopia in chickens.

Ophthalmology 2016. 123 (5):1036-1042 4 Tideman JW et al. Association of axial length with risk of uncorrectable visual impairment for Europeans with myopia. JAMA Ophthalmol. 2016;134:1355-1363.

SightGlass Vision received a CE mark allowing its first suite of lenses—for eyeglasses specially designed to slow the progression of nearsightedness in children—to be sold throughout Europe.