Two common defects of the eyes are myopia (short-sightedness) and hyperopia (long-sightedness ... as shown in the diagrams below. Someone who is long-sighted can see distant objects clearly ...

Nearsightedness (myopia) and Farsightedness (hyperopia or presbyopia) are well-known refractive errors or refractive eye diseases. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), there are ...

Myopia (nearsightedness) and hyperopia (farsightedness) develop through different molecular pathways, according to a new study publishing October 9 in the open-access journal PLOS Biology by ...

Back to Healio BOSTON — The Artisan hyperopia and myopia lenses (Ophtec USA, Boca Raton, Fla.) are performing well, according to results of studies presented at the annual American Society of ...

Myopia (nearsightedness) and hyperopia (farsightedness) develop through different molecular pathways, according to a new study. The finding provides a new understanding of myopia, the most common ...

Pathways underlying myopia (nearsightedness) and hyperopia (farsightedness) are different, not opposite, revealed study published in journal PLOS Biology and conducted by Andrei Tkatchenko of ...

I was in the operating room the other day and one of my residents asked, "What is better tolerated after cataract surgery: residual hyperopia or residual myopia?" I quickly answered: "residual myopia!

Myopia, or nearsightedness, develops through a molecular pathway distinct from the pathway that leads to hyperopia, or farsightedness. Resolving the molecular blur behind blurred vision ...