Near-Sightedness In Children Linked To Light Exposure During Sleep Before Age Two
. Children who sleep with a light on in their bedrooms at night before the.age of 2 may be at significantly higher risk of developing myopia -.near-sightedness - when they become older than children who sleep as infants in.the dark at night, according to a collaborative study by researchers at the.University of Pennsylvania Medical Center and The Children's Hospital of.Philadelphia. A rep....LOS ANGELES (March 25, 1999) -- A laser technique approved by the Food and Drug.Administration last November for correction of farsightedness in adults has been.used for the first time to treat a child, allowing a 12-year-old boy to shed.unattractive glasses and enjoy a more active life.. .Kenneth Wright, M.D., a Cedars-Sinai Medical Center ophthalmologist specializing.in the treatment of pedia...So Near And Yet So Far. . . FDA Approves Laser Vision Correction For Farsightedness
.LOS ANGELES (January 18, 1999) -- For nearly a decade, nearsighted individuals.have benefited from the development and FDA approval of techniques and.technology for laser-assisted vision correction. For these nearsighted.Americans, laser vision correction opened the exciting possibility of seeing.clearly without the aid of either glasses or contact lenses.. .Now, with the approval by the FDA....DALLAS -- September 28, 1998 -- When Richard Segars was growing up, kids would.call him "Coke Bottle" -- a cruel reference to the thickness of his eyeglasses..As a teen-ager, he tried contact lenses, but an allergic reaction made them.impossible to wear. Although Segars, now a 37-year-old sheriff's deputy,.accepted the fact that glasses might always be a part of his permanent uniform,.he never...