Usually myopia doesn't cause any problems other than the need for glasses or contact lenses. A small number of people have a more severe form of nearsightedness called high myopia. The light ...

Perspective from Alexander Martin ... patients with progressive myopia may have been overrepresented. “Anecdotally, clinicians often report myopia progression in adults, and our analysis ...

More than 40% of Americans are estimated to have myopia, also known as nearsightedness. While many may consider it a minor inconvenience easily remedied with glasses, authors of a report published ...

Those who read my Lindstrom’s Perspective regularly know ... myopia are between the ages of 3 to 14 years and have at least one parent with myopia between the ages of 20 and 50 years.

It is estimated that by 2050, fifty per cent of the population will have myopia. First, let us understand how we see images in the first place. Rays of light pass through the cornea, which is the ...

Myopia — better known as nearsightedness — is a common condition that can make it hard to see things that are far away. If you have myopia, the shape and structure of your eyes cause incoming ...

It has been observed that children of myopic parents tend to have longer eyes and are more likely to develop myopia during their childhood or adolescence. The strong familial effects for ...

But researchers have found that children’s eyes have become so bad that myopia may soon become a ‘global health burden’ for young people. By 2050, according to a study published yesterday in ...

Rates of myopia are increasing globally, with the World Health Organization estimating that half of the world’s population could have myopia by 2050 in what is already being called an epidemic.

About 36% of children and teens globally have myopia or near-sightedness, meaning they have trouble with distance vision. And according to a new study published in the British Journal of ...