Topic: Nearsightedness
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Implantable lenses could be a safer alternative to laser surgery for moderately nearsighted people, a British review of earlier research suggests. Laser surgery - for example, LASIK -- is the standard procedure for nearsighted people who don't ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A prescription for bifocals may help children with rapidly worsening nearsightedness maintain better vision, a new study suggests. Children with nearsightedness, or myopia, have trouble seeing objects clearly at a distance, and for some, the condition progresses ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Significantly more Americans are nearsighted today than in the early 1970s, a report released today indicates. Nearsightedness, also called myopia, is when the eyes focus incorrectly to make distant objects appear blurred. This common problem can be ...
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