Surgeons at Johns Hopkins' Wilmer Eye Institute are now offering conductive keratoplasty, or CK, to correct low-level farsightedness in selected patients over age 40. The procedure, approved in April ...

This story is part of a series on the current progression in Regenerative Medicine. This piece is part of a series dedicated to the eye and improvements in restoring vision. In 1999, I defined ...

The capacity of laser vision correction can help drastically improve the lives of those with myopia (nearsightedness), hyperopia (farsightedness), and astigmatism, has made it extremely popular. In ...

Many young children have some degree of farsightedness—an ability to see objects far away more clearly than objects that are close up. Health providers are divided on whether moderate farsightedness ...

The ophthalmological condition that presents with deficiency in near vision, but normal far vision, is known as hyperopia or farsightedness. While most term babies are born with this condition, it ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Children with uncorrected hyperopia were reported to have worse educational performance and reading skills, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Surgical treatment of hyperopia has historically been more problematic than treatment of myopia. Surgeons have ...

In most children with hyperopia, the condition is mild and has little impact on vision. A small number of preschool children have high hyperopia (more than 6 diopters) that is corrected with ...

Early use of prescription eyeglasses by young children with hyperopia failed to show a significant vision benefit after 3 years of follow-up in a randomized trial. Children assigned to glasses had a ...

Cataract surgery restores a person’s vision to how it was before they developed cataracts. However, in some cases, it can also reduce other types of visual impairment, such as near- or farsightedness.