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 ...

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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, ...

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.

Prior to this research, recent trials conducted primarily in East Asia showed a benefit from .01 percent atropine in slowing myopia. The randomized controlled trial, conducted by the Pediatric Eye ...

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 ...

Atropine prescriptions in children with myopia did not increase ocular complication risks compared to non-users, despite myopia's inherent risks. The study involved over 1.2 million children, with 67% ...

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 ...

Patients with Down's syndrome respond with abnormally great mydriasis to conjunctivally instilled atropine. This finding has been attributed to a structural anomaly of the Iris. To define the systemic ...