Landmark Study: Myopia in Canadian Children Worsening
Wednesday, October 26 2016 | 00 h 00 min | Press Release, Vision Science
A new study from Waterloo’s School of Optometry and Vision Science and the CNIB has found that the eyesight of school-age Canadian children is...
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CLU Issue 31: Overnight Lens Wear and Orthokeratology
Wednesday, April 27 2016 | 00 h 00 min | Vision Science
Issue 31 of the Centre for Contact Lens Research’s Contact Lens Update explores extended wear of contact lenses, including the fields of myopia...
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Half of World’s Population Will be Short-Sighted by 2050
Tuesday, February 23 2016 | 00 h 00 min | Vision Science
There will be 5 billion cases of myopia by 2050, with one-fifth of those cases at increased risk for blindness, according to the Brien Holden Vision...
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Medicated Eye Drops Slow Children’s Myopia Progression
Friday, November 20 2015 | 00 h 00 min | Vision Science
Results from a five year clinical trial in Singapore, presented at the AAO annual meeting, show that low-dose atropine slowed the progression of...
Read More 40 Minutes of Outdoor Activity per Day May Slow Epidemic of Myopia in Children
Thursday, October 1 2015 | 00 h 00 min | Vision Science
Myopia has reached epidemic levels in some countries in east and south-east Asia, where 80-90% of children will develop myopia by the time they...
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