The FDA issued a complete response letter for SYD-101, citing insufficient evidence of effectiveness despite achieving ...

How severe should myopia be in a pediatric patient to justify starting treatment, and when is it appropriate to begin ...

The FDA declined to approve SYD-101, a low-dose atropine formulation that would have been the first pharmaceutical treatment ...

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 ...

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, ...

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While the trial met its primary endpoint, the FDA stated in its letter that the application could not be approved in its current form.

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 ...

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 ...

Atropine has long been used to treat abnormally slow heart rate in emergency situations by altering the way electrical signals move through the heart. Bradycardia is an especially slow heartbeat and a ...