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Help is at hand for people whose vision is . An American pharmaceutical company Allergan has developed eye drops that can an eye condition called presbyopia. This is when people's close-up vision getting blurred. It usually when people get into their 40s. It affects over a billion people around the globe. About 16 per cent of these cannot eyeglasses or access to eye surgery. The new eye drops are Vuity. Allergan called them "an innovative new prescription eye drop". It said Vuity "the first and only FDA-approved eye drop to age-related Blurry Near Vision (presbyopia) in adults". It added they "may patients with presbyopia see up close".

Presbyopia it is difficult to see things clearly up close. Sufferers glasses or have to make the text on phone and computer screens bigger. On its website, Allergan that its eye drops could help people see three lines on an eye chart that would normally blurred. It wrote: "In clinical studies where patients one drop of Vuity in each eye once daily, this was by the proportion of patients achieving a 3-line gain or more reading a near-vision eye chart." The drops by reducing the eye's pupil size. This helps people to on text and objects that near them. A user who tested the eye drops said they him see smaller letters in focus.