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Quarterly dosing may become reality for wet AMD
New anti-VEGF agents paired with upcoming drug delivery systems and monitoring technologies may lead to possible quarterly dosing regimens for patients with neovascular...
1 day ago - Healio
Two phase 3 trials to investigate faricimab for wet AMD
Roche and Genentech are initiating two phase 3 global trials to investigate the bispecific molecule faricimab for the treatment of wet age-related macular degeneration...
12 days ago - Healio
LumiThera receives $2.5 million grant to study dry AMD treatment option
LumiThera has received a $2.5 million small business innovative research phase II grant from the National Institute of Health and the National Eye Institute to continue...
20 days ago - Healio
First patient dosed in Ocular Therapeutix wet AMD trial
The first patient has been dosed in a phase 1 clinical trial of OTX-TKI for patients with wet age-related macular degeneration, according to a press release from Ocular...
25 days ago - Healio
VIDEO: Dark adaptation a biomarker for AMD
NEW ORLEANS - Practitioners can use the AdaptDx by Maculogix to test a patient's dark adaptation, which can be a biomarker for AMD, according to Bill McPhee, CEO of...
25 days ago - Healio
Study suggests AMD as a biomarker of frailty, aging
In a large sample of elderly U.S. residents, late age-related macular degeneration was associated with an increased risk of all-cause mortality and mortality not related to...
26 days ago - Healio
First gene therapy operation for macular degeneration is a success
A new treatment is the first to target the underlying genetic cause of AMD, which affects more than 600,000 people in the UK alone.
1 month ago - News Medical - 2 articles
Study shows correlation between HDL, triglycerides and AMD
HDL cholesterol and triglycerides have a positive and negative association, respectively, with an increased risk of age-related macular degeneration, particularly in the early...
1 month ago - Healio
Surgeons perform first gene therapy procedure aimed at stopping AMD-related blindness
Researchers have completed the first gene therapy procedure aimed at stopping age-related macular degeneration. The operation was performed at John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford...
1 month ago - Healio
Antioxidants improve visual function in nonadvanced AMD
Supplementation with macular carotenoids in two formulations, containing and not containing mesozeaxanthin, in combination with coantioxidants, showed efficacy in improving...
1 month ago - Healio
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Joy Milne , of Perth, Scotland, discovered she can smell Parkinson's when she noticed a change in her late husband Les's scent a decade before he was diagnosed in 1985.
Eye Proteins Levels are Potential Predictors Of Future Alzheimer's Disease
Low levels of amyloid- 946; and tau proteins, biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease , in eye fluid were significantly associated with low cognitive scores.
Cheap blood pressure drugs could increase prostate cancer survival chances
Scientists from the University of Tampere in Finland studied more than 8,000 men to find a class of drugs known as ARBs could reduce men's risk of dying from prostate cancer.
Thousands of cataracts patients are missing out on vital surgery because of...
A report revealing which local NHS boards are rationing cataract ops, hip and knee replacements, hernia repairs and glucose monitors found Bedfordshire is the only one...
Kentucky teen who refuses to get the chickenpox vaccine SUES his school
Jerome Kunkel, an 18-year-old senior and basketball captain at a Catholic school in Walton, objects to vaccines because he believes they 'contain aborted fetal cells'.
Hypertensive Treatment Prevents Worsening Brain Damage In Senior Adults
Elderly people with hypertension who took medicine to keep their 24-hour systolic blood pressure around 130 mm Hg for 3 years showed significantly less accumulation of harmful...
Anti-hormonal Drugs Trigger Depression in Men With Prostate Cancer
Men who receive anti-hormonal treatment after a radical prostatectomy have an increased tendency to depression, revealed Danish researchers.
Cheap blood pressure drugs could increase survival chances for men with...
Scientists at the Universtiy of Tampere in Finland led the study. They found the class of blood pressure drug called angiotensin II receptor blockers had the benefit. They...
Review: Majority of osteoporosis clinical practice guidelines ignore...
Patients' voices are ignored all too often in osteoporosis clinical practice guidelines, say researchers, who reviewed 70 English-language guidelines around the world and found...
Osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis have similar impacts on patients
Osteoarthritis has traditionally been viewed as a highly prevalent but milder condition when compared with rheumatoid arthritis, and some may believe that it is part of a...