For years, rising rates of myopia—or nearsightedness—have been widely attributed to increased screen time, especially among children and young adults. But new research from scientists at the SUNY ...

It’s not just the phone, it’s the lighting. Scientists have found a new biological link between dim indoor habits and the global nearsightedness epidemic.

For years, rising rates of myopia - or nearsightedness - have been widely attributed to increased screen time, especially ...

Prolonged near work in low luminance may accelerate myopia primarily by limiting retinal illumination through sustained accommodative miosis rather than by electronic screens per se.

Myopia, or the need for corrected vision to focus or see objects at a distance, has become a lot more common in recent decades. Some even consider myopia, also known as nearsightedness, an epidemic.

Findings published in BMC Ophthalmology suggest that during diagnosis and follow-up of glaucoma with high myopia, more attention ought to be focused on structure and functional defects in macular ...

Pathological myopia is one of the leading causes of blindness in the world. Progressive macular degeneration is the major complication and causes visual loss. These eyes generally have refractive ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “We purposed to evaluate the relationship between structural changes of the eyeball due to myopia and ...

The United States is fast becoming a nearsighted nation: More than 40% of Americans have myopia, and the number is climbing fast, especially for children. Experts aren’t sure why, but they believe ...

All children are at risk for developing myopia (nearsightedness); however, if one or both parents of the child has nearsightedness, the child will have a higher risk of developing nearsightedness. The ...

This story is part of a series on the current progression in Regenerative Medicine. This piece is part of a series dedicated to the eye and improvements in restoring vision. In 1999, I defined ...

In a new study from SUNY College of Optometry to be published in Cell Reports, Maharjan et al. demonstrate that human ...