Screen Time

In these videos, Preeya K. Gupta, MD, FACS, associate professor of ophthalmology at Duke University, talks about the various treatment options for dry eye, both approved and in the pipeline, as well as challenges in diagnosis.

Family stressors during the COVID-19 pandemic were associated with problematic media use by children and teenagers, according to a study published in Pediatrics.

Last week, Healio reported live from the Endocrine Society’s annual meeting, the first one to be held in person in 3 years.

ATLANTA — People who spend more time per day using wireless mobile devices are more likely to have a higher BMI, lower-quality sleep and other adverse health outcomes, according to a presenter at ENDO 2022.

Children aged 6 to 10 years reported screen time increases of 1.4 hours per day during the COVID-19 pandemic, and increases in screen time were associated with adverse dietary behaviors, according to a study.

In the second part of a five-part series, Elizabeth Yeu, MD, discusses remote learning, the incorporation of technology in education, and how dry eye disease and symptomatology are affected.

Home confinement and distance learning significantly increased the number of hospital visits for myopia at a university hospital in Istanbul, although no correlation was found with myopia progression.

Children and youth with more screen time had increased risk for poor mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to results of a longitudinal cohort study conducted in Canada and published in JAMA Network Open.

The lifestyle changes brought by the COVID-19 pandemic have caused a dramatic increase in the incidence and severity of dry eye disease, or DED.

Study data showed that preschool-aged children with asthma spent significantly more time watching TV than their healthy peers and that poor asthma control was linked with less frequent physical activity.