The first randomized controlled trial of its kind aimed at identifying an effective way to manage myopia was published last week. A study conducted at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and 11 other ...

Modern living may be contributing to an epidemic of nearsighted vision and related blindness. By 2050, it is estimated that half the world's population will suffer from low vision due to myopia, a ...

Nearsightedness means you see objects up close clearly, but far away objects are blurry. Farsightedness means you see far-away objects clearly, but close objects can be blurry. Both nearsightedness ...

As the rate of myopia in children grows, research is keeping a finger pointed at the fact much of our lives is spent indoors. An expansive review of research published this week in the British Journal ...

As optometrists, it is our job to determine what is really driving those symptoms. Knowing when to look deeper, taking a more ...

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.

If you've ever found yourself driving down the highway and noticed that billboards, traffic signs or vehicles in the distance appear blurry, chances are you're experiencing some form of myopia. This ...

Child eye test and eye exam. Little girl having eye check-up, with phoropter. Doctor performs eye test for child. This story is part of a series on the current progression in Regenerative Medicine.

An artificial intelligence system trained on more than 150,000 retinal images predicted which children's vision would ...

"Myopia boom" refers to a predicted rise from 2.8 billion current cases worldwide to 4.8 billion by 2050. A recent study in shrew trees found that indigo light could help reduce the development of the ...

As scientists try to untangle the reasons for skyrocketing rates of nearsightedness in kids, new treatment options can help prevent their vision from getting worse. In the U.S. myopia rates have ...

As humans age, our eyes adjust based on how we use them, growing or shortening to focus where needed, and we now know that blurred input to the eye while the eye is growing causes myopia. It is so ...