In a new consensus report, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine said that myopia should be classified as a disease that requires a medical diagnosis, and that children ...

Phakic intraocular lenses (IOLs) are a possible treatment for myopia and hyperopia. The procedure involves permanently implanting phakic IOLs. They help correct refractive errors by refocusing ...

Aim To determine if ‘Defocus Incorporated Multiple Segments’ (DIMS) spectacle lenses slow childhood myopia progression. Methods A 2-year double-masked randomised controlled trial was carried out in ...

When myopia is considered a pathology Linking myopia to pathology prompted the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2019 to define the condition as a major risk factor for so-called preventable ...

Doctors are looking for creative ways to solve an eye problem that is becoming more common among children and teens. Myopia, the medical term for nearsightedness, is a vision condition where close ...

We are faced with a global epidemic of myopia (short-sightedness) because we are deprived of deep violet light (360-400 nm). Myopia is projected to rise from 23 to 50 percent of the world’s ...

In the U.S., we don’t have good prevalence data for myopia and other refractive errors, such as astigmatism and hyperopia [farsightedness].

ABSTRACT The approach to any refractive condition of the eye with regular astigmatism is more complicated than that for myopia or hyperopia alone. It requires familiarity with the complex images ...

Myopia, or nearsightedness, is a vision condition where close objects look clear but far objects look blurry.

Lower amounts of hyperopia and less positive values of horizontal/vertical component of astigmatism also were associated with greater likelihood of myopia onset.

The epidemiological evidence on the association between screen time exposure and myopia in children and adolescents.

China’s revealing struggle with childhood myopia Anxious parents don’t want to let children play outdoors and do less schoolwork ...