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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Experts warn that, fueled by the overuse of screens and the decline in outdoor activity, half of the world’s population will have myopia by 2050. This condition is a common disorder of visual ...

Perspective from Erick Henderson ... Among myopic children, those with high myopia have greater retinal thickness in the inner retina, but thinner patterns in the parafoveal and perifoveal ...