The number of short-sighted children and adolescents globally will grow to more than 740 million by 2050, according to a comprehensive new analysis looking into the prevalence of the eye disorder. The ...

Researchers at two West Yorkshire universities are leading a study examining ways to slow the progression of ...

If it feels like more kids than ever are needing glasses, you may be on to something. A new analysis of more than 5.4 million young people aged five to 19 from more than 50 countries has revealed a ...

The pandemic may be to blame for spiralling levels of short-sightedness in children, researchers revealed today. Experts have long warned it is because youngsters are spending less time outdoors and ...

A rise in cases of short-sightedness (myopia) among children in Hong Kong may be linked to a significant decrease in the time they have been able to spend outdoors and a sharp rise in screen time ...

Short-sightedness (myopia) and long-sightedness (hyperopia) are usually due to a mismatch between the length of the eye, from front to back, and the combined power of the cornea –the transparent ...

In his answer to this question, Peter Bursztyn writes that he isn’t sure “how one could determine whether a wolf, an eland or a cheetah were short-sighted”. He says: “I can’t imagine devising ...

A combination of routine eye scans and AI has created a powerful new way for measuring short-sightedness to better predict people’s long-term risk of serious retinal damage, a new study suggests.