The number of people who need prescription glasses to correct their vision is increasing each year as nearsightedness, or ...

A hidden band between violet and blue keeps animals’ eyesight perfect—but lightbulbs don’t emit it.

EssilorLuxottica's Stellest lens is the first FDA-authorized glasses lens shown to slow myopia progression in kids, cutting it by 71% in trials.

Virtual reality-based digital defocus vision training (DDVT) may be a promising adjunctive approach for pediatric myopia ...

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.

Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham are studying ways to prevent myopia, or nearsightedness from developing in children. With the rise in technology use and less time spent outdoors ...

Childhood myopia, or nearsightedness, is rising rapidly worldwide due to increased screen exposure, reduced outdoor play, and ...

As myopia rates climb, eyecare experts are urging clinicians to take frontline action and get ahead of the condition before it escalates to something worse. “It is a serious visual disease that ...

High-resolution retinal imaging shows decreased foveal cone density in children receiving red-light myopia therapy for over one year.

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 ...

A wavelength of light largely missing from indoor LEDs may play an important role in protecting developing eyes from ...

Schools, day care centers, and other public buildings where children spend hours indoors could be candidates for improved lighting design.