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

The Myopia Collective added 22 new “change agents,” as well as its first group of 19 student change agents, to foster greater support for and awareness of childhood myopia treatment, according to a ...

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

Background/aims Childhood myopia is an increasing public health concern, with earlier onset, faster progression and greater ...

A child squinting at the classroom board or moving closer to a screen may seem like a small change. But repeated difficulty seeing distant objects can be an early sign of myopia, or 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.

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 ...

Although they are more expensive than standard myopia correction lenses, these optical devices effectively slow down myopia and, as a result, prevent its harmful consequences. Unfortunately, they are ...

New research from Australia indicates people with myopia are more likely to experience poorer sleep quality than people with normal vision. The study indicates that people with short-sightedness have ...