myopia
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Severe myopia increases the risk of cataracts, glaucoma and retinal detachment later in life.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 2026
Progression slowed in both the placebo and the atropine groups in the later years of the trial, but that’s to be expected because myopia slows as children grow up.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 2026
European regulators have also green-lit treatments by Sydnexis for progressive childhood myopia and Atara-Pierre Fabre’s for a rare blood cancer, both of which were recently rejected by the FDA.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 2, 2026
The theory suggests that maintaining safe exposure to bright light while limiting accommodative pupil constriction may help control myopia.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 19, 2026
He sat as stiffly as he walked, straight as a pole, his head thrown slightly back and to one side, with a sidelong glance that held a mixture of pride, distrust, and myopia.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
Like all TV shows, but especially ones that capture the zeitgeist, it’s a product of its time, reflecting the myopias of the era and of its creative team.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 9, 2021
But alongside generational myopias there is wisdom, too.
From New York Times ● Sep. 19, 2020
Ultimately, however, as the disorientation expands, we realise that there are not just misogynies at work here: there are cultural myopias, competing models of freedom, competing versions of Islam.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 22, 2020
But it’s also a symbol for certain insistent myopias of masculinity.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 4, 2019
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