Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than 740 million young people could be short-sighted by 2050, study finds The number of short-sighted children and ...

Gen Zers are getting increasingly near-sighted from staring at their electronic devices all day and face a blindness epidemic if they continue to stay indoors while phone-addicted, a leading eye ...

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The number of short-sighted children and adolescents globally will grow to more than 740 million by 2050, according to a comprehensive new analysis looking into the prevalence of the eye disorder. The ...