I just received this from a colleague and thought I post it to the list.
>Compiled from Associated Press reports
>Thursday, May 13, 1999; Page A13
>Night Lights and Myopia
>Children who sleep under the soft glow of a night light to keep the scary
monsters away may be more likely to suffer a very real and lifelong problem --
nearsightedness.
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and the Children's Hospital of
Philadelphia say that youngsters who sleep in a dimly lighted room until age 2
may be as much as five times more likely to develop myopia, or nearsightedness,
as they grow up.
The Philadelphia study of 479 children, published in today's issue of the
journal Nature, raises the provocative possibility that too much light prompts
the eyes to grow excessively and skews their natural focus during the first two
years of life, when the eyes develop most rapidly. However, eye specialists
from many institutions dismissed the study as premature and incomplete.
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