Donna Tennent, whose son participated in the MiSight® 1 day trial, shares her family’s experience of myopia management ...

Five percent of preschoolers, 9% of elementary-age children, and 30% of adolescents in the United States have myopia. And the numbers are rising. Researchers predict that by 2050, about half the ...

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.

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 ...

With myopia cases predicted to impact nearly half the world’s population by 2050, Dr Bindiya Hapani highlights how screen ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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.