Have you ever gone to the optometrist for an eye test and been told your eye was shaped like a football?Or perhaps you’ve ...

One 2018 review estimated that the prevalence of astigmatism in World Health Organization regions is 40.4 percent in adults and 14.9 percent in children, although this varied between regions.

Astigmatism (uh-STIG-muh-tiz-um) is a type of refractive error where one or more of the eye’s surfaces are not smooth and/or round. It is broadly classified into two types: regular and irregular.

Toric soft contact lens prescribing increased from 24.4% in 2000 to 46.2% in 2023. Men were more likely to be prescribed toric soft lenses compared with women (32% vs. 28.7%). Toric soft contact ...

TAMPA, Fla. — In this Healio Video Perspective from the Telling It Like It Is meeting, Brian M. Shafer, MD, shares his thoughts on managing astigmatism or presbyopia at the time of cataract surgery.

Biotrue ONEday for astigmatism contact lenses reportedly retain 98% moisture for up to 16 hours per day. The company says they feature a water content of 78% and help refresh the eye with every blink.

In a cohort of 21,655 children ages 6 to 8 years, the prevalence rate of refractive astigmatism of at least 1.0 diopter (D) increased from 21.4% in 2015 to 34.7% in 2022-2023, and corneal ...