Young nearsighted kids who wear bifocal contact lenses that slow uncoordinated eye growth do not lose the benefits of the treatment ...

Rates of nearsightedness, or myopia, are skyrocketing in kids—and scientists say it has to do with how little time they’re ...

Do you have difficulty reading street signs unless you are very close to them? Or do you find the screen at the cinema blurry, especially if you are sitting far away from the screen? If yes, it could ...

They temporarily change the shape of the cornea so that a person can see clearly all day long without glasses or contact lenses. They are also thought to slow myopia development because they bend ...

Myopia (nearsightedness ... If the cornea of our eye is too steeply curved or the eye is longer from the front to the back than normal, this unusual shape causes light to be focused in front ...

Two common defects of the eyes are myopia (short-sightedness ... laser surgery to change the shape of the cornea and a replacement lens in the eye. Contact lenses work by being in ‘contact ...

and ultimately progression of myopia, have been developed and are now commercially available for practitioners to prescribe to their paediatric patients. These interventions include spectacle and ...

Myopia can lead to more severe eye problems in the future including ... they "can reshape the patient's eyeballs back to a healthy spherical shape while potentially correcting their vision ...