About 29 million Americans have diabetes, which can lead to a host of serious health problems. Among them, something called diabetic retinopathy. It’s the most common cause of vision loss in diabetic ...

A father with a progressive eye disease was able to see his son thanks to a new therapy that uses a virus to bring a healthy gene into the eye CBS 17/YouTube A dad with the degenerative eye disease ...

Anti-vascular endothelial growth factor compounds are routinely used for the treatment of diabetic macular edema (DME). We aim to evaluate for the existence and magnitude of treatment effect on fellow ...

VEGF Trap-Eye (aflibercept solution for injection) Met Primary Endpoint in Two Phase 3 Trials for the Treatment of Diabetic Macular Edema Berlin, August 6, 2013 – Bayer HealthCare and Regeneron ...

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 ...

Surgeons have operated on a patient with retinal vein occlusion using a surgical robot. Operated by an eye surgeon, the robot uses a needle of barely 0.03 millimeter to inject a thrombolytic drug into ...

In a preliminary study of 106 people with "wet" age-related macular degeneration, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers report that as many as a third of those with the blinding retinal disease may ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - If you're getting a drug injection for macular degeneration or another eye condition, a new study suggests you might want to make sure your doctor doesn't talk while doing ...

Medicare, the federal health insurance program for Americans 65 and older, could save $18 billion over the next 10 years if doctors switch to a less expensive drug to treat blindness. The switch could ...

A Georgia compounding pharmacy is recalling 40 lots of Avastin injection syringes after reports that at least five patients developed eye infections from off-label use of the drug. The injection drugs ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A woman's simple cosmetic procedure turned serious when an injection of facial filler into her ...