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Large data set correlates cholesterol levels with AMD
HDL cholesterol and triglycerides have, respectively, a positive and negative association with increased risk for age-related macular degeneration, particularly in the early...
7 days ago - Healio
BioTime, Orbit Biomedical to collaborate on OpRegen subretinal delivery for dry AMD
BioTime has entered into a research and option agreement with Orbit Biomedical regarding technology to deliver OpRegen to treat dry age-related macular degeneration, according...
8 days ago - Healio
Gemini to initiate CLARITY dry AMD disease registry and study
Gemini Therapeutics announced a disease registry and natural history study to identify and characterize disease progression in patients with non-central geographic atrophy...
9 days 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...
1 month 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...
1 month 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...
1 month 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...
1 month ago - Healio
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...
2 monthes ago - Healio
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...
2 monthes 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...
2 monthes ago - Healio
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I'm a senior Trump official, and I hope a long shutdown smokes out the...
The Daily Caller is taking the rare step of publishing this anonymous op-ed at the request of the author, a senior official in the Trump administration whose identity is known...
Drug used to treat stroke may also prevent Alzheimer's
A study by the University of Southern California found that giving mice the medication 3K3A-APC protects their brains against the build-up of toxic proteins and inhibits memory...
Idaho woman who blamed weight gain on menopause discovers 50-pound tumor
Brenda Cridland of Meridian, Idaho, chalked up her weight gain to aging, but when her health started to quickly decline about eight months ago she decided to see a doctor.
Medical breakthrough as lawyer, 49, is the first person in the UK to have...
EXCLUSIVE: Patrick Higgins, from Surrey, has become the first person to have a pioneering new cataract operation which involved a permanent but removable contact lens to...
The goal in government "is to do nothing," say federal workers who are...
A senior official in the Trump administration who recently spoke with The Daily Caller on the condition of anonymity has expressed full-fledged support for the continued...
What To Keep In Mind With That ‘How Did You Age' Challenge
Hanging in my father's house is a picture of me from when I was in high school. I'm standing next to my first Jeep that I ever owned, so I know I was a Junior or Senior. For...
Interview with Suzanne Somers: Living Proof that Anti-Aging Therapies Work
Just how old is Suzanne Somers anyway? That's the question in everyone's mind upon meeting this vibrant, youthful health advocate, who is the author of 25 books. Suzanne Somers...
Infographic: Reducing Your Alzheimer's Risk
WebMD's infographic details ways you can keep your brain sharp and reduce your risk of Alzheimer's disease.
FDA Advisers Urge Approval of Romosozumab for Osteoporosis
The risk for cardiac events, though not well defined, should not hold up marketing, said the FDA panel members. Medscape Medical News
Rutgers study finds gene responsible for spread of prostate cancer
A Rutgers study has found that a specific gene in cancerous prostate tumors indicates when patients are at high-risk for the cancer to spread, suggesting that targeting this...