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Millions more are expected to experience worsening vision due to myopia (nearsightedness) or hyperopia (farsightedness), conditions that can be fixed with glasses, contacts or surgery.—
Michelle Marchante,
Miami Herald,
2 Jan. 2025 -
Some people with hyperopia can have their vision surgically corrected.—
Kelly Burch,
Verywell Health,
11 July 2024
Noun
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For example, bifocals correct both nearsightedness and farsightedness with the same lens.—
Lindsay Curtis,
Health,
10 Sep. 2025
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Solutions for Complex Vision Problems Traditional contact lenses primarily correct vision problems, such as near-sightedness and farsightedness.—
Malana VanTyler,
AZCentral.com,
28 Aug. 2025
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Because there are multiple ways to correct presbyopia — including glasses, contact lenses, and vision correction surgery — the decision to choose eye drops will come down to a personal choice, Diamond says.—
Emily Kay Votruba,
EverydayHealth.com,
23 Oct. 2025
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What are the early signs of presbyopia?—
Janet Loehrke,
USA Today,
23 Sep. 2025
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People with severe myopia have a higher risk of sight-threatening complications that can lead to even poorer vision.—
Sheah Rarback,
Miami Herald,
2 Oct. 2025
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Those dots can defocus peripheral light, which may help slow the progression of myopia in children.—
Jacqueline Howard,
CNN Money,
26 Sep. 2025
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Myopia is when someone can see objects close-up but their vision becomes blurred when looking at objects farther away, and astigmatism is a condition in which either the eye’s cornea or lens has a different shape than normal, causing blurred vision.—
Jacqueline Howard,
CNN Money,
26 Sep. 2025
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For instance, people with astigmatism benefit from toric lenses.—
Malana VanTyler,
AZCentral.com,
28 Aug. 2025
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In the future, simple eyedrops could be used to delay the onset of nearsightedness in children, which in turn can reduce those risks, Walline said.—
Jacqueline Howard,
CNN Money,
26 Sep. 2025
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In the study, researchers tested the EMR process on 12 separate rabbit eyeballs, reshaping 10 of them to mimic the corrective effect required for nearsightedness (myopia).—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
19 Aug. 2025
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Barrel Cards The barrel card exercise can help improve symptoms of strabismus (crossed eyes).—
Laura Schober,
Health,
12 Feb. 2025
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One of his conditions, strabismus,has also been reported by researchers to be behind the genius of Leonardo da Vinci, allowing the painter to perceive the world differently and facilitating his accurate depiction of three-dimensional objects on flat surfaces.—
Maya Davis,
CNN,
4 Aug. 2024
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Along with numerous other broken bones, as well as the psychological and physiological trauma of his recurring episodes of diplopia, his entire career looked to be in jeopardy.—
Jonathan Hawkins,
CNN Money,
11 July 2025
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Understandably, strabismus is frequently accompanied by diplopia, or double vision.—
Peter Lewis,
San Francisco Chronicle,
2 Nov. 2017
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