Clinical trials for a laser treatment targeting this common eye disease will begin in Finland next spring, and researchers hope it could become available to patients within three years. About one in ...
Around a third of people over the age of 80 suffer from age-related macular degeneration (AMD), with an estimated 20 million ...
A one-time subretinal injection of Sura-vec at both high- and low-dose concentrations allowed more than half of patients with neovascular AMD to be free of anti-VEGF injections through 1 year, ...
Macular degeneration, particularly age-related macular degeneration, is a leading cause of vision loss worldwide. This condition affects the central part of the retina, known as the macula, which is ...
WAUSAU, Wis. (WSAW) - Geographic atrophy affects approximately one million people in the United States and is commonly associated with both dry and wet macular degeneration. Now a new treatment is ...
D Molecular Therapeutics, Inc. (($FDMT)) announced an update on their ongoing clinical study. Study Overview: The clinical study titled A Phase ...
Age-related macular degeneration is the leading cause of vision loss in those who are age 50 or older. In fact, almost 20 million people in the U.S. have some type of age-related macular degeneration, ...
Dear Carol: My dad is 86 and quite healthy other than his eyes. Recently, he developed the wet form of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and needs to get regular injections in his eyes to slow ...
A Guernsey resident believes "people's enjoyment in life" is being sacrificed for the financial cost of using a drug that can ...
This story is part of a series on the current progression in Regenerative Medicine. This piece is part of a series dedicated to the eye and improvements in restoring vision. In 1999, I defined ...
Larry Hoffheimer watched helplessly as his mother, Florence, went from doctor to doctor seeking better glasses more than 20 years ago. Getting a diagnosis of macular degeneration didn’t resolve the ...
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the most common form of irreversible blindness in developed countries. AMD is a complex genetic disease, meaning several genes must be involved. Scientists ...