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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...
10 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...
11 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...
11 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...
14 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...
16 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...
17 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...
20 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...
20 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...
22 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...
24 days ago - Healio
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New Results for Experimental Alzheimer's Drug
Studies on aducanumab were halted earlier this year because the drug didn't appear to be effective. But the new results suggest it's effective at a high dose, the Associated...
Eggshell membrane cuts osteoarthritis knee discomfort in large scale...
Eggshell membrane could be the key ingredient to help the sufferers of knee pain and stiffness associated with osteoarthritis. Nearly one quarter of US adults struggle with the...
Being physically active can cut the risk of men developing prostate cancer...
Bristol University researchers looked at how active 140,248 men were by looking at variations in their DNA - rather than relying on questionnaires.
Breaking the Ultrasound Barrier
Focused ultrasound is an FDA-approved treatment for essential tremor and is approved to treat Parkinson's disease outside the U.S. It's also making waves in research into...
6 Ways Care Apps Improve Senior Living Communities
Is your senior care community still on the fence about going digital with care management? Are you struggling to convince hesitant staff that they should embrace the change of...
Improving Blood Vessel Health in the Brain may Help Combat Alzheimer's: Study
Large dilations and contractions of vessels that happen spontaneously at an ultra-low frequency are a major driving force to clear waste products from the brain, said scientists.
VIDEO: Novel treatments show efficacy for fatty liver, cirrhosis
BOSTON - In this exclusive video from The Liver Meeting 2019, Manu Chakravarthy, MD, PhD, chief medical officer and senior vice president of Axcella Health, discusses positive...
Family Lifestyle Changes - and Behavioral Health Interventions - can Help...
Pediatric obesity is a growing problem. One third of children in the U.S. are either overweight or obese. For parents and caregivers of children who are obese or at risk of...
Highland Hospital Foundation Awards Highest Honor To Robert McCann, M.D., MACP
The Highland Hospital Foundation presented the 2019 Heritage Award to Robert McCann, M.D., MACP, a long-time member of the Highland Hospital Board and former board chair, at a...
Mount Sinai receives $1 million grant to advance understanding of prostate...
The Milton and Carroll Petrie Department of Urology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has received a $1 million grant from The Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation.