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Dec. 5, 2023 As humans age, our eyes adjust based on how we use them, growing or shortening to focus where needed, and we now know that blurred input to the eye while the eye is growing causes myopia. It is so ...
Jan. 19, 2022 Changing environmental factors as well as changing gene-environment interactions could be to blame for increasing rates of myopia, also known as nearsightedness or shortsightedness, over time, ...
May 27, 2021 New research from Australia indicates people with myopia are more likely to experience poorer sleep quality than people with normal vision. The study indicates that people with short-sightedness have ...
Sep. 21, 2023 Scientists develop computer models of patients' eyes to identify the ideal intraocular lenses and visual simulators for patients to experience how they will see with ...
Aug. 1, 2023 The first randomized controlled trial of its kind aimed at identifying an effective way to manage myopia was published last ...
July 13, 2023 Use of low-dose atropine eyedrops (concentration 0.01%) was no better than placebo at slowing myopia (nearsightedness) progression and elongation of the eye among children treated for two years, ...
Oct. 7, 2021 A new study has revealed a link between screen time and higher risk and severity of myopia, or short-sightedness, in children and young ...
Dec. 13, 2023 Researchers developed machine-learning models to predict visual acuity in patients with high myopia. A cohort study of 967 patients was used to evaluate the models. The results show that a regression ...
June 1, 2023 The results of a new clinical trial suggest that the first drug therapy to slow the progression of nearsightedness in kids could be on the horizon. The three-year study found that a daily drop in ...
Nov. 17, 2022 Researchers have identified five genetic variants that increasingly raise a person's risk of becoming nearsighted the longer they stay in ...