Their book should appeal to both clinician and non-clinician as we move into the next decade of the epidemic.

When books were replaced with smartphones ... population could have myopia by 2050 in what is already being called an epidemic. As of 2010, just 27% of the global population has myopia.

Snow had published a book in 1848 in which he proposed that ... with different water sources in South London. Then a dramatic epidemic began near his home in Soho, killing 550 people in two ...