World Health Organisation predicts that by 2050, 50 per cent of the global population will have myopia, with 10 per cent at ...

Know why children are wearing glasses at an alarmingly young age. Learn the underlying reasons and potential risks associated ...

In a cohort of 21,655 children ages 6 to 8 years, the prevalence rate of refractive astigmatism of at least 1.0 diopter (D) ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) lists glaucoma as one of the leading reasons for irreversible blindness worldwide, and ...

Myopia is a refractive error (blurred vision at a given distance) that affects around 30 per cent of the world's population .

Also known as “pathological myopia” and “degenerative myopia,” MMD most commonly develops in people who are very nearsighted. People with nearsightedness (sometimes called shortsightedness ...

Introduction: Pathological myopia, a severe form of myopia, is characterized by an extreme elongation of the eyeball, leading to various vision-threatening complications. It is broadly classified into ...

Every day we wake up and need to use our eyes,” said Wu Pei-chang (吳佩昌), a leading researcher of the subject and director of the Myopia Treatment and Prevention Center at Chang Gung Memorial Hospital ...