Myopia, or near-sightedness, is on the rise: Nearly half of the world’s population will be nearsighted by 2050, according to the World Health Organization. The condition is increasingly common among ...

Myopia, frequently called nearsightedness, can be as inconvenient as it is common. A vision condition that causes nearby objects to appear clear but distant ones to appear blurry, myopia can happen ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “One of the biggest challenges that we all continue to hear as we lecture across the world about myopia and talk ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . For eye care providers who practice evidence-based medicine, one guiding principle is the reliability of a ...

Avedro (Waltham, MA) landed a CE Mark in the European Union for its non-surgical myopia treatment device. The device, dubbed KXL II, can perform a photorefractive intrastromal cross-linking procedure, ...

Brianna Rhue, OD, FAAO, discusses the pitfalls of myopia treatment and accessibility of that treatment. There are still some pitfalls associated with myopia treatment in children, according to Brianna ...

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.

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CARBONDALE, Ill. (KFVS) - What do caffeine and vision have to do with each other? Scientists at Southern Illinois University Carbondale say it could help people see better. Researchers at SIU’s School ...

PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) - Doctors at OHSU are trying to help manage the issue of the growing population of children being diagnosed with nearsightedness. OHSU doctors said a big reason this is an ...

The World Health Organization warns that by 2030, 40% of the world's population will be nearsighted. In the U.S. alone, myopia rates have soared over the past 50 years, from 25% in 1971 to nearly 42% ...