Eye injections are the only medication currently available to treat diabetes-related retinopathy. Modern eye injections are not painful and don’t cause many side effects. Diabetic retinopathy affects ...
syfovre, also known as pegcetacoplan, is a medicine used to treat geographic atrophy, which is the advanced form of dry age-related macular degeneration. Geographic atrophy can cause irreversible ...
CHICAGO — Specialists are losing money with every intravitreal injection they administer, regardless of the drug being injected, an investigator warns. Each injection we do costs $127.74 — $1.60 for ...
Retinal diseases such as age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and diabetic retinopathy affect millions of people globally, often leading to vision loss with minimal straightforward treatment.
People with proliferative diabetic retinopathy may develop another eye condition called macular edema. The macula is the part of the retina that processes the images in the center of your vision ...
If you have wet age-related macular degeneration (wet AMD) or another disease of the retina, your doctor may recommend treatment with an anti-VEGF drug. VEGF, or vascular endothelial growth factor, is ...
An RNA-editing gene therapy has been developed that switches off the key driver of common eye conditions affecting diabetics and the elderly. The researchers behind the innovative treatment say that ...
Continuous use of tear substitutes significantly improved dry eye symptoms in patients with neovascular age-related macular degeneration (AMD) who received frequent eye injections, whereas ...