{"id":139027,"date":"2022-05-06T20:22:37","date_gmt":"2022-05-07T01:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/new-eye-drops-improve-aging-vision-without-glasses-heres-how-they-work"},"modified":"2022-05-06T20:22:37","modified_gmt":"2022-05-07T01:22:37","slug":"new-eye-drops-improve-aging-vision-without-glasses-heres-how-they-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/new-eye-drops-improve-aging-vision-without-glasses-heres-how-they-work","title":{"rendered":"New Eye Drops Improve Aging Vision Without Glasses. Here\u2019s How They Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-eye-drops-improve-aging-vision-without-glasses-heres-how-they-work2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When people get into their 40s and beyond, their close-up vision starts to worsen. For many people, cranking up the font size on a phone or maxing out the brightness on a computer is the only way to be able to read some text.<\/p>\n<p>This condition is known as <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/jcm11051385\">presbyopia<\/a>, and it affects around <a href=\"https:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.2147%2FOPTH.S318065\">128 million people<\/a> in the US and more than a <a href=\"https:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1097%2FAPO.0000000000000297\">billion people worldwide<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In late 2021, the US Food and Drug Administration approved a new eye drop medication to treat presbyopia. As an <a href=\"https:\/\/ophthalmology.pitt.edu\/people\/robert-bittner-od-faao\">optometrist<\/a>, I was initially skeptical.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When people get into their 40s and beyond, their close-up vision starts to worsen. For many people, cranking up the font size on a phone or maxing out the brightness on a computer is the only way to be able to read some text. This condition is known as presbyopia, and it affects around 128 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}