This drug is approved for macular degeneration and is in testing for diabetic eye disease.
And it's timely -- we're seeing an epidemic of age-related macular degeneration with our aging population.
CNN: Smoking quadruples risk for vision-stealing eye disease
Dry macular degeneration is caused when drusen begin to accumulate in and around the macula.
CNN: New techniques slow progress of age-related vision loss
My father had macular degeneration for the last few years of his 83-year life.
FORBES: Avastin vs Lucentis: One Step Closer to Cost Rationing?
In 2007, the board restricted access to two drugs for macular degeneration, a cause of blindness.
They showed how high cholesterol levels could affect the immune system and lead to macular degeneration.
BBC: Macular degeneration: Cholesterol drugs 'may save sight'
This is an amazing result for macular degeneration, which has been, until now, irreversible.
President Jacob Zuma said he was alarmed and saddened by the degeneration in the industrial dispute.
Some investors may still be wary of Gamestop after witnessing the slow degeneration of Radioshack (NYSE: RSH).
However, studies have shown that supplements and a healthy diet can slow the progression of dry macular degeneration.
CNN: New techniques slow progress of age-related vision loss
It is now focused on seeking treatments for major eye diseases, including Wet AMD, or age-related macular degeneration.
FORBES: Teva Chairman Continues To Seek Undervalued Biopharmaceuticals
In a test on ten patients with retinitis pigmentosa, an inherited disease involving retinal degeneration, vision improved significantly.
Lucentis is a prescription drug for the treatment of patients with wet age-related macular degeneration and macular edema.
Another group of patients who may find such technology useful, scientists say, is those with severe macular degeneration.
One was Visudyne (verteporfin), the first drug treatment for severe forms of macular degeneration, the leading cause of blindness.
Wilkinson: There are other data that have incriminated smoking in age-related macular degeneration.
CNN: Smoking quadruples risk for vision-stealing eye disease
The goal is to prevent the degeneration of the nervous system and brain that is caused by the disease.
FORBES: Biogen Prices New MS Pill At $55K, Prepares For Marketing Battle
One patient had macular degeneration, a very common but incurable eye disease, and the second had Stargardt disease.
"Absolutely, it is going to be a great target for the next generation of macular degeneration drugs, " says Zhang.
We either take action to prevent further degeneration or large parts of the acquatic ecosystem will die off.
FORBES: Setting an Innovation Agenda for the Ocean: The Next Frontier for People Like Us
Genentech is testing a derivative of Avastin, rhuFab V2, in patients with macular degeneration, a leading cause of blindness.
In this study, the researchers tested the skin patch on mice with an age-related brain degeneration similar to Alzheimer's.
The disease, macular degeneration, has become a modern scourge of an aging population.
She never has been, but being affected by frontotemporal degeneration (FTD) has only brought her no-nonsense tendencies out more.
FORBES: The Disease That Stole My Career: Inside The Mind Of Frontotemporal Degeneration
The proteins were activated in mice bred to mimic the effects of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and diabetic retinopathy.
The story everyone's writing is this: Genentech's being hurt by weakening sales of Lucentis, its drug for age-related macular degeneration.
Bogle: Well, first of all, I'd respond that that's absurd and ridiculous and reflects a degeneration of the thought process.
When macular degeneration rendered her virtually blind, she used a magnifying glass to get through the Financial Times most days.
According to the National Eye Institute, about 85 to 90 percent of patients with advanced macular degeneration have the dry form.
CNN: New techniques slow progress of age-related vision loss
Similarly, when they took away the source of the testosterone in male rats by castrating them, the brain degeneration was lessened.
应用推荐