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US trial of Notal Vision's home-based OCT underway
Notal Vision has initiated the first U.S. clinical study of its patient-operated OCT system that can be used at home to monitor wet age-related macular degeneration, the...
7 hours ago - Healio
Is Macular Degeneration Preventable?
An intriguing presentation about the possible link between age-related macular degeneration and processed food consumption literally caught my eye. As presented in the featured...
3 days ago - Mercola
VIDEO: Notal Vision pursues home-based OCT for wet AMD monitoring
CHICAGO - At the Ophthalmology Innovation Summit at AAO, Quinton Oswald, CEO of Notal Vision, discusses the company's pursuit of an OCT home monitoring system for patients with...
24 days ago - Healio
Researchers characterize new animal model that mimics aspects of AMD
Age-related macular degeneration affects roughly 200,000 individuals in the United States each year. In most, it comes on slowly, gradually blurring the central field of vision...
26 days ago - News Medical
First patient dosed in Adverum wet AMD gene therapy trial
The first patient has been dosed in a phase 1 trial of ADVM-022 gene therapy for wet age-related macular degeneration, Adverum Biotechnologies announced in a release. The...
27 days ago - Healio
Eye Calcifications Linked to Increased Risk of Age-related Macular Degeneration
Calcified nodules in the retina - the thin layer of tissue that lines the back of the eye - increase the risk for progression to advanced AMD.
29 days ago - Medindia Health
Optos announces collaborations in Alzheimer's disease, AMD
Optos Plc, a subsidiary of Nikon Corp., Japan, announced a clinical alliance with Amydis Inc. to develop an eye test to detect Alzheimer's disease and exclusive distribution...
1 month ago - Healio
Calcified nodules in the retina increase risk for progression to late stages of AMD
Calcified nodules in the retina are associated with progression to late stages of age-related macular degeneration.
1 month ago - News Medical
Zimura-Lucentis combination safe in wet AMD patients in phase 2a trial
Zimura, a complement factor C5 inhibitor, was found to be well tolerated in combination with Lucentis in a phase 2a clinical trial, Ophthotech announced in a press...
1 month ago - Healio
VIDEO: Sustained-release ranibizumab ‘exceeds expectations' for wet AMD
CHICAGO - Carl D. Regillo, MD, gives an update on the phase 2 LADDER study, a four-arm trial of sustained-release ranibizumab , at the American Academy of Ophthalmology meeting...
1 month ago - Healio
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