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The myopia pandemic: how changing childhoods are blurring our future

Children today spend far less time outdoors in natural daylight and much more time indoors, either at school, tuition classes, or in front of screens. In genetically susceptible children, these environmental changes are contributing to the rapidly increasing prevalence of short-sightedness

21 May 2026 2:16 pm