It looks like nearsightedness is on the rise in the United States. Researchers tapped into a wide-ranging health survey to rate vision in the population in the early 1970s and roughly 30 years later.

For Christine Wildsoet, a professor of vision science and optometry at the University of California–Berkeley, the coffee shop hosts some of the worst offenders. There are the new moms chatting while ...

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.

WASHINGTON (AP) — For many children, the experience of getting their first pair of glasses is an inevitable milestone, the first in a lifetime of visits to the eye doctor. But what if those lenses ...

A revolutionary, cutting-edge technology, developed by researchers at Bar-Ilan University's Institute of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials (BINA), has the potential to provide a new alternative to ...

Modern living may be contributing to an epidemic of nearsighted vision and related blindness. By 2050, it is estimated that half the world's population will suffer from low vision due to myopia, a ...

Myopia, or nearsightedness, affects about a quarter of the U.S. population. It can be managed or delayed, but there is no known cure. If you can see things clearly up close, but they get blurrier as ...

There has been an explosion of nearsightedness in school-age children around the world in recent years. In the United States, 44% of adults are now nearsighted, up from 25% 30 years ago. And in Asia, ...

Rates of nearsightedness the world over are rising. Are we demanding too much of our eyes? We focus on monitors and smartphones and things close up. We talked to Dr. Frank Schaeffel about the ...

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.

This article was originally featured on The Conversation. 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 ...