Myopia Profile has announced the launch of Myopia Action Month, a global initiative to unite eye care professionals and combat childhood myopia through free online seminars, lectures by industry ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . For the second consecutive year, Myopia Profile announced that September is Myopia Action Month, a global ...

Five genetic variants may be linked to the onset of short-sightedness in people who study to university level. The discovery could help to identify children who are more likely to develop the ...

FV Hospital, one of the largest private hospitals in Vietnam, has recently introduced a myopia control programme for children and adolescents aged 3-18. The new service aims to screen young people for ...

NO ETHICS committee would let researchers trap millions of children indoors for months, just to test the effects on their eyesight. Yet China’s strict zero-covid rules—notably a nationwide lockdown ...

Myopia, or nearsightedness, is a common type of refractive error where close objects appear clearly, but objects farther away appear blurred. Although this vision ...

The United States is fast becoming a nearsighted nation: More than 40% of Americans have myopia, and the number is climbing fast, especially for children. Experts aren’t sure why, but they believe ...

A decade into her optometry career, Marina Su began noticing something unusual about the kids in her New York City practice. More of them were requiring glasses, and at younger and younger ages. Many ...