Special eye drops used two to three times daily might one day replace reading glasses as a means of coping with age-related ...

For the first time, researchers are leading a national study to see if the onset of nearsightedness can be delayed – and ...

The University of Houston is co-leading a national study, the first of its kind in the United States, exploring whether ...

Dr. Rahul Bhola is medical director of ophthalmology at Children’s Hospital of Orange County, now Rady Children’s Hospital ...

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A recent study has drawn attention by suggesting that presbyopia can be improved using only eye drops, without the need for glasses or surgery.

Children with myopia experience more eye problems than those without the condition, but atropine eye drops do not appear to ...

For the first time, researchers are leading a national study to see if the onset of nearsightedness can be delayed - and ...

Children with myopia using 0.05% atropine eye drops had less myopia progression and/or less axial elongation compared with those using placebo or 0.01% atropine, though they had higher rates of ...

Although children living with myopia taking atropine did experience an increased incidence of cataracts, glaucoma, or maculopathy, it is unclear if this risk was confounded by myopia severity.

Myopia, frequently called nearsightedness, can be as inconvenient as it is common. A vision condition that causes nearby objects to appear clear but distant ones to appear blurry, myopia can happen ...