Over 250 million children and teenagers will likely be impacted by this condition by 2025, according to health experts.
The prevalence of myopia, or short-sightedness, in children is steadily increasing worldwide. Experts are sounding the alarm, pointing to excessive screen time as a significant contributing factor.
The health ministry has approved Japan's first eye drops designed to slow the progression of myopia, or short-sightedness.
Today, nearly three years after Moscow launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Ukrainian officials are calling the Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances "a monument to short-sightedness in ...