Narrative review identifies emerging associations between gut microbiota and pediatric eye conditions.
Early gut bugs may shape your child's eye health for life
This narrative review examines associations between gut microbiota dysbiosis and pediatric ophthalmic conditions including myopia and allerg…
New research suggests that the tiny bugs living in a child's gut could be the hidden reason behind their eye problems.
Systematic review and meta-analysis of atropine for myopia control in children
Atropine Eye Drops Work Better for Some Kids Than Others, New Analysis Shows
This systematic review and meta-analysis evaluated atropine treatment in children ≤16 years with myopia across 34 RCTs. The pooled analysis …
This research confirms that atropine eye drops can slow nearsightedness in children, but how well they work depends on the dose and the chil…
HAL lenses associated with less myopia progression than SVL in children aged 6–12 years.
New Glasses May Slow Your Child’s Nearsightedness From Getting Worse
This retrospective cohort study in 157 school-age children with low myopia found that Highly Aspherical Lenslets (HAL) were associated with …
These new glasses can significantly slow the progression of nearsightedness in children, but age plays a major role in how well they work.
HAL spectacle lenses slow myopia progression and axial elongation in Indian children and adolescents
New Glasses May Slow Kids' Worsening Vision by 83%
A retrospective study of 372 Indian children and adolescents aged 4–16 years found that Highly Aspherical Lenslets (HAL) spectacle wear redu…
Special glasses slowed worsening nearsightedness in kids by 83%, cutting yearly vision decline from 0.72 to 0.11 diopters.
SMILE shows superior refractive predictability and stability versus FS-LASIK and Trans-PRK in myopia correction
SMILE showed better predictability and stability than other laser vision correction methods in this Iraqi study.
A retrospective multicenter cohort study of 919 eyes in Iraqi patients compared SMILE, FS-LASIK, and Trans-PRK for myopia correction over 1.…
SMILE laser surgery offered the most accurate and stable vision correction with the least eye dryness compared to other laser methods in thi…
Wavefront-guided LASIK and PRK show high rates of 20/20 vision in patients with myopia and astigmatism.
Can Eye Surgery Trainees Really Match the Experts?
This prospective, nonrandomized clinical trial evaluated wavefront-guided laser in situ keratomileusis (WFG-LASIK) and wavefront-guided phot…
Eye surgery trainees at a California institute matched expert results, with over 90% of LASIK patients seeing 20/20 or better and no vision …
Meta-analysis finds outdoor activity associated with lower myopia risk in Chinese youth
Can more outdoor time help protect Chinese children's eyesight?
A systematic review and meta-analysis of 31 studies including 380,215 Chinese children and adolescents found greater daily outdoor activity …
Getting more than two hours of outdoor time each day lowers the risk of nearsightedness for Chinese children compared to less than an hour.
Outdoor time >120 min/day shows limited myopia protection in premyopic children
Does playing outside protect kids' eyesight? For some children, it might not be enough.
A post-hoc analysis of 3194 children (1369 premyopic) found hyperopic children showed reduced myopic shift with increasing outdoor time, pla…
Playing outside helps some kids avoid nearsightedness, but children already at risk need more than two hours daily to see any eye protection…
Meta-analysis: Myopia prevalence 30.1% in Chinese children/adolescents, peaks at 81.0% in high school
Nearly 1 in 3 Chinese kids and teens has nearsightedness, with rates soaring in high school
A meta-analysis of 34 studies (n=139,765) found the pooled prevalence of myopia among Chinese children and adolescents was 30.1%. Prevalence…
Nearly one in three Chinese children and teens has nearsightedness, with rates soaring to 81% by high school and peaking in 2016.