There are several surgical treatments for myopia, including LASIK and PRK. Each procedure comes with its own risks and benefits. Myopia — better known as nearsightedness — is a common condition that ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

The COVID-19 pandemic didn’t just reshape how children learn and see the world. It transformed the shape of their eyeballs. As real-life classrooms and playgrounds gave way to virtual meetings and ...

Myopia, which is also known as nearsightedness, represents a vision condition in which an object close to the eye is seen clearly, whereas objects farther away appear blurred. The name is derived from ...

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

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

One day, when I was in the second grade, I was struggling to see the blackboard clearly in class. I moved from the back of the classroom to the middle, and finally to the front bench; yet, I struggled ...

Myopia (aka nearsightedness) is a common condition among both children and adults. In simple terms, the eyes of people with myopia aren’t able to focus light rays correctly on the retina. As a result, ...