Tag: Myopia
Optometry Podcast: Myopia Control with Dr. Brett O’Connor
What You Need to Know About Myopia Control
As a 2015 graduate from the Southern College of Optometry, Dr. Brett O’Connor joined Pullen Eye Care...
If you love myopia control…
You might start hearing more about MicroPine. Developed by Eyenovia, MicroPine is a formulation of low dose atropine given to slow myopia progression. This is unique...
What your patient might ask you…
If my 10 year old is a -2.00 myope now, what will they be in 5 years?
No need to dig out your old TI-80...
Contacts that slow myopia progression.
Three year results on a study comparing myopia progression in 8-12 year olds was presented last week in England. Results showed patients fit in MiSight, a CooperVision dual-focus daily soft contact...
Longer lashes AND myopia prevention?! Sign me up.
A study presented at ARVO last week showed that a repurposed glaucoma drug can halt myopia progression.
Scientists induced myopia in guinea pig eyes then treated the eyes with...
Want to prevent myopia? Don’t go to medical school.
A retrospective study found that the prevalence of high myopes (i.e. more than -6.00D) to common myopes is expected to increase from 15% entering college to...
Myopia cell found!
Researchers at Northwestern in Chicago may have found a retinal ganglion cell responsible for myopia and it might be linked with the amount time spent indoors.
What...