Eyes Myopia Refractive Errors Short Sightedness Shortsightedness Hypermetropia

Early visual exposure influences myopia

Myopia or shortsightedness is one of the most common refractive errors. Apart from being genetically determined, increasing body of evidence shows that a child's early exposure to visual media may have a major role to play in the onset of myopia. In a report on myopia from the Department of Ophthalmology, University of California, the author quote...