In the new trial, nearsighted kids wore high-add bifocal lenses for two years followed by one year with single-vision contact lenses. Results showed no evidence that the treatment effect declined ...

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

Single vision prescription glasses and contact lenses can correct myopic vision, but they fail to treat the underlying problem, which is the eye continuing to grow longer than normal. By contrast ...

Children who wore soft multifocal contact lenses for myopia control had no loss of treatment effect after discontinuing the ...

No evidence is seen for loss of treatment effect after discontinuing soft multifocal contact lenses in older teenagers with myopia, according to a study published online Jan. 16 in JAMA Ophthalmology.

In the original BLINK study, 294 myopic children, ages 7 to 11 years, were randomly assigned to wear single vision contact lenses or multifocal lenses with either high-add power (+2.50 diopters ...

"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 ...

Single vision prescription glasses and contact lenses can correct myopic vision, but they fail to treat the underlying problem, which is the eye continuing to grow longer than normal. By contrast ...

Eye specialists say there are ways to mitigate a common eye condition that's typically treated with corrective lenses.

The study involved 235 participants between the ages of 11 and 17 who wore high-add (+2.50 dioptre) multifocal soft contact ...

In the new trial, nearsighted kids wore high-add bifocal lenses for two years followed by one year with single-vision contact lenses. Results showed no evidence that the treatment effect declined ...

Participants in the follow up study wore high-add lenses for two years, followed by single-vision contact lenses for the third year of the study to see if the benefit remained after discontinuing ...