Suggested Citation: "1 Introduction." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Myopia: Causes, Prevention, and Treatment of an Increasingly Common Disease. Washington, DC: The ...

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. Myopia, commonly called nearsightedness, is a ...

In a new consensus report, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine said that myopia should be classified as a disease that requires a medical diagnosis, and that children should ...

Repeated low-level red light (RLRL) may be a successful preventive treatment to stave off nearsightedness in children, but questions about safety and potential implementation remain. In a randomized ...

The LightSPAN research project aims to leverage behaviour-change interventions as a key strategy to empower parents to take charge of their children’s eye health and older individuals to take charge ...

TUMCREATE, a multidisciplinary research platform of the Technical University of Munich (TUM) in Singapore, and the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine), ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A bipartisan group of U.S. House of Representatives members wrote to the CDC asking about the agency’s efforts ...

When Li Yun noticed her child was becoming near-sighted two years ago, the mother from northern China’s Hebei province decided to do everything she could to protect her child’s vision. Feeling that ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Prevalence of these disorders increases with myopia severity. Myopia prevention strategies and psychological ...