Overview: Atropine ophthalmic is an eye drop used to dilate the pupils and relax eye muscles before eye exams or procedures. It is also used to treat lazy eye. The most common side effects are pain ...

Background/aims Although 0.01% atropine is widely used for myopia control, its efficacy is debated and its effectiveness ...

Child eye test and eye exam. Little girl having eye check-up, with phoropter. Doctor performs eye test for child. This story is part of a series on the current progression in Regenerative Medicine.

Inspectors from the United Nations are attempting to determine whether the Syrian government is responsible for the use of chemical weapons in attacks there—a line that, if crossed, could warrant ...

If you peek into classrooms around the world, a bunch of bespectacled kids peek back at you. In some countries such as China, as much as 80 percent of children are nearsighted. As those kids grow up, ...

Nimesh A. Patel, MD, discusses compounded low-dose atropine and SYD-101 ahead of an October 30 FDA advisory committee meeting ...

In the hours following the reported chemical weapons attack in the suburbs of Damascus last Wednesday, ailing men, women, and children flocked to the city's hospitals. Doctors in the Syrian capital ...

Low-concentration atropine eye drops are a safe and effective treatment for short-sightedness (myopia) in UK children, although the effects are small, suggests a clinical trial published by The BMJ.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Accommodative amplitude objectively measured via autorefractor was lower vs. controls at morning and midday but ...