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 ...
Moorfields hospital in London is the world's first dedicated clinic for the disorder and seven out of eight patients given ...
DALLAS. (KFSN) -- Diabeties is a leading cause of blindness in American adults. Partially because it is often missed until it is too late. Now, a new treatment is helping save patients' sight.
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- Imagine being given a choice between losing your eyesight or having a monthly injection directly into your eye. As CBS2's Dr. Max Gomez reported, that is the choice that ...
Eye injections of the drug Avastin, used to treat retinal diseases, bring no greater risk of endophthalmitis, a potentially blinding eye infection, than injections with the much more expensive drug ...
A Coral Gables firm obtained settlements for two women who were blinded by a procedure they believed was a clinical trial for stem-cell therapy. The procedure was supposed to treat their macular ...
Injection medications can save the vision of older people with macular degeneration, but the ongoing regimen is taxing. Now a preliminary study raises the possibility that some patients can safely be ...
Oraya's X-ray system for delivering radiation to the back of the eye--Courtesy of Oraya 2014 Fierce 15 member Oraya Therapeutics seeks to reduce the number of eye injections required to treat wet ...
FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Verseon presented promising preclinical efficacy data for the first development candidate for clinical trials in their diabetic eye disease program at this week’s ...
I can't find a photo of this, but a retina exam involves what is essentially poking your eye with a stick while a light source is moved around. Your eye is anesthetized. Click to expand... Uhh, no ...