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Statement on the Success of Reduced Daily Eye Patching to Treat Severe Amblyopia

Prescribing six hours of daily patching for the unaffected eye of children with severe amblyopia works as well as prescribing full-time patching.
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Reduced Daily Eye Patching Effectively Treats Childhood's Most Common Eye Disorder

Patching the unaffected eye of children with moderate amblyopia for two hours daily works as well as patching the eye for six hours.
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Statement on the Use of Progressive Addition Lenses vs. Single Vision Lenses to Treat Myopia in Children

Researchers have found that the three-year progression of myopia (nearsightedness) in a large group of ethnically diverse children who wore progressive addition lenses (PALs or no-line bifocals) was slightly less than that of children who wore single...
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Eye Drops to Treat Childhood Eye Disorder

Atropine eye drops given once a day to treat amblyopia, or lazy eye, the most common cause of visual impairment in children, work as well as the standard treatment of patching one eye.
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Myopia Development and Nighttime Light Exposure in Infancy

Two groups of researchers have found no association between nighttime light exposure during sleep in the first two years of life and the subsequent development of nearsightedness, or myopia.
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Oxygen Restrictions Can Be Eased for Premature Infants with Blinding Eye Disease

Modest supplemental oxygen given to premature infants with moderate cases of retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), a potentially blinding eye disorder, may not significantly improve ROP, but definitely does not make it worse, according to researchers funded
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Light Reduction Does Not Affect Blinding Eye Disease in Premature Infants

Researchers supported by the National Eye Institute have determined that light reduction has no effect on the development of a potentially blinding eye disorder in low birthweight infants
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Study Confirms Value Of Treatment To Prevent Blindness In Premature Babies

Follow-up results from a study of premature babies with a potentially blinding condition confirm that a freezing treatment applied to their eyes helps save their sight.
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Freeze Treatment Reduces Blindness in Premature Infants

Briefly freezing a portion of the eye’s surface can protect many premature infants against blindness from retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), a disease that causes visual loss in 2,600 infants in the United States annually.

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