"The laser beam can be positioned with great accuracy on surfaces, so we can produce significantly smaller microlenses than is possible with previously existing methods," commented Thomas Höche head ...

Choroidal neovascularization (CNV) is one of the most important vision-threatening complications secondary to pathological myopia (PM ... with myopic macular degeneration complicated by CNV ...

Various studies have shown the benefits of sunlight on reducing the progression of myopia in young children. Suarez cites one study in particular: Of more than 700 schoolchildren in Taiwan, ...

Eye specialists divide myopia broadly into simple myopia and pathologic myopia, both of which are degenerative. Those with ...

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Following the switch from multifocal to single-vision contact lenses, axial elongation increased by 0.03 mm/year, and myopia ...

Further to the discussion of early-onset myopia, it occurs to me that some ... to suggest methods to exercise the eyes to minimise degenerative effects. Most notably, the books promote the idea ...

Ahead of World Sight Day (10 October), researchers at the ... glaucoma and myopic macular degeneration. Those who develop ...

In nearsightedness, or myopia, the eye grows and is stretched into an elongated shape. This abnormality increases the risk for cataracts, detached retina, glaucoma and myopic macular degeneration ...

We do hope that genetic therapy and, probably in the longer term, stem cell or retinal transplantation could be used in the treatment of degenerative CNV. Alfredo Pece, Director of the Department ...