New research published today in The Lancet Global Health reveals that less than half of people over 50 worldwide have received spectacles or contact lenses needed to correct refractive error, the ...

News Release 1-Jun-2022 New loci for refractive errors and ocular biometric parameters in young Chinese Han adults Peer-Reviewed Publication Science China Press ...

Myopia is a refractive error (blurred vision at a given distance) that affects about 30% of the world's population. This proportion is increasing so quickly that it is estimated it will reach 50% ...

Surgeons are seeing many Generation X patients seeking refractive lens exchange or cataract surgery. Patients in this ...

Myopia is a refractive error (blurred vision at a given distance) that affects about 30% of the world's population. This proportion is increasing so quickly that it ...

A refraction test is usually given as part of a routine eye examination. It may also be called a vision test. This test tells your eye doctor exactly what prescription you need in your glasses or ...

Purpose To translate the original 42-item National Eye Institute Refractive Error Quality of Life Questionnaire (NEI-RQL-42) into Turkish and to investigate its ...

Over 700 million people worldwide suffer from uncorrected refractive errors which can result in blindness and equate to hundreds of billions of dollars in lost annual global productivity.

Cycloplegic autorefraction The primary outcome measure for refractive error, considered to be the most important, is cycloplegic autorefraction. The children get two drops of a cycloplegic.

Ophthalmology. 2009;116 (8):1469-1474. Issue: October 10, 2009 Add topic to email alerts Receive an email when new articles are posted on ...