As an ophthalmologist, I see how addiction is affecting surgical outcomes.

Time indoors looking at screens can cause eyeballs to elongate, leaving kids nearsighted for life.

In a new consensus report, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine said that myopia should be classified as a disease that requires a medical diagnosis, and that children should ...

While Europe and Asia have had Stellest glasses for years, the FDA finally approved them for the U.S. in 2025.

When myopia is considered a pathology Linking myopia to pathology prompted the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2019 to define the condition as a major risk factor for so-called preventable ...

Almost half of the visual impairment in the world can be attributed to uncorrected refractive errors, and myopia constitutes a significant proportion of this problem. Myopia occurs when the focused ...

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

OT dives into a key topic in the education programme at 100% Optical 2026. This week: Fabian Yii on definitions of myopia ...