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Gene therapy reduces treatment burden, improves vision in wet AMD
SAN FRANCISCO - RGX-314 gene therapy demonstrated meaningful reductions in anti-VEGF injections and increases in visual acuity and central retinal thickness among patients with...
13 days ago - Healio
How Exercise Could Save Your Vision
They're the window to your soul! You want your eyes to stay healthy for a lifetime. When it comes to the sense we value the most, vision tops the list. Most of us will...
14 days ago - Cathe Friedrich
Thermally induced mixing technique could improve treatment of AMD
Age-related macular degeneration is the primary cause of central vision loss and results in the center of the visual field being blurred or fully blacked out. Though treatable...
14 days ago - News Medical
VIDEO: Novel oral therapy drug safe, effective for wet AMD
SAN FRANCISCO -Twice daily dosing of oral AKST4290 over the course of 6 weeks improved visual acuity in patients with neovascular age-related macular degeneration, according to...
17 days ago - Healio - 2 articles
Patients with AMD can successfully self-operate OCT device at home
SAN FRANCISCO - Patients with age-related macular degeneration could successfully self-operate an optical coherence tomography device at home, according to study findings...
19 days ago - Healio
Home monitoring systems, longer-acting drugs should ease burden of retinal disease
New longer-acting molecules and home monitoring will soon help relieve the increasing burden of age-related macular degeneration and diabetes-related ocular pathologies, both...
20 days ago - Healio
Luminate shows potential in dry AMD
SAN FRANCISCO - Luminate showed potential for the treatment of intermediate dry age-related macular degeneration, according to study results presented at Retina Subspecialty...
23 days ago - Healio
Risuteganib shows potential in dry AMD
SAN FRANCISCO - Risuteganib showed potential for the treatment of intermediate dry age-related macular degeneration, according to study results presented at Retina Subspecialty...
23 days ago - Healio
Test combining fundus, OCT imaging improves AMD diagnosis
SAN FRANCISCO - A screening strategy combining fundus and OCT imaging improved the accuracy of age-related macular degeneration classification, according to data presented at...
25 days ago - Healio
VIDEO: Gene therapy for wet AMD ‘on the horizon'
SAN FRANCISCO - In the OPTIC trial, patients with wet age-related macular degeneration who were treated with ADVM-022, an intravitreal gene therapy, did not require additional...
27 days ago - Healio
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NEW YORK - At OSN New York 2019, Brandon D. Ayres, MD, of Wills Eye Hospital, shows the surgical implantation of an iris prosthesis sutured to an IOL in a situation in which...
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Beta Blockers No Help in Advanced Prostate Cancer
]]> - WASHINGTON - A retrospective analysis of close to 40,000 men with high-risk prostate cancer treated at Veterans Affairs health systems found no association between beta...
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