Myopia news and updates
Clinic updates, new research and tools. Items from outside our clinic link to their source; manufacturer announcements are labelled as such.
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New article: every dioptre counts
Why we built a free myopia control platform, what it can and cannot do, and what the evidence says about combining treatments.
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Myopia outlook calculator now online
Parents can see how a child's glasses power may change by age 18 with and without treatment. Doctors can add axial length and a measured growth rate for a personalised projection. Nothing typed into the calculator is stored.
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Myopia Virtual Clinic: follow-up tracking and OCR for biometry reports
Clinicians can record glasses power, axial length and treatment at each visit and read printed biometry reports with built-in text recognition. Sign-in is for clinicians; the cohort shown on the demo workspace is example data.
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BHVI adds outdoor time to its myopia risk calculator
The Brien Holden Vision Institute's Global Myopia Centre updated its calculator to include time spent outdoors when predicting myopia risk.
Source: Brien Holden Vision Institute
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Largest paediatric myopia contact lens studies finish enrolment
CooperVision reports it has enrolled more than 3,000 children at over 100 sites in the United States and China for post-approval studies of its MiSight 1 day lens, with data expected between 2027 and 2030. This is a manufacturer announcement.
Source: CooperVision press release
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MiYOSMART iQ lens data presented at ARVO 2026 for children from age 4
HOYA Vision Care and The Hong Kong Polytechnic University presented randomised trial data on 196 Hong Kong children aged 4 to 12, reporting that the lens stopped clinically meaningful progression in about nine in ten children in the first year. The result comes from the manufacturer and its university partner.
Source: Optometry Times