Experts are sounding the alarm, pointing to excessive screen time as a significant contributing factor. With the rise in ...

Short-sightedness, or myopia, is a growing global health concern which is set to affect millions more children by 2050, the study warns. The highest rates are in Asia - 85% of children in Japan ...

GUEST OPINION: Myopia, or short-sightedness, is on the rise globally, a new report has found.The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) released a report in September ...

People with short-sightedness, also called myopia or near-sightedness, can see close-up objects clearly, like the words you’re reading right now. Anything far away, though, and it’s a blurry mess.

Children’s eyesight is gradually deteriorating worldwide with one in three children affected by short-sightedness or unable to see objects well in distance. Myopia or short-sightedness will ...

Myopia, or short-sightedness, is a common eye condition which is typically caused by excessive growth of the eye. It normally begins in childhood and continues to progress into early adulthood. In ...

Chinese doctors have concluded that the proportion of children and adolescents with myopia will continue to grow rapidly in the next two ...

We are faced with a global epidemic of myopia (short-sightedness) because we are deprived of deep violet light (360-400 nm). Myopia is projected to rise from 23 to 50 percent of the world’s ...

During the lockdown period, their ocular muscles were stressed, resulting in Myopia. The study also revealed that, between 1990 and 2023, the percentage of people who are short-sighted (Myopia ...