People with diabetic macular edema may receive eye injections to help control their symptoms. These shots can help to improve vision and also stop the damage that causes vision issues to get worse.
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 ...
Eylea HD is a higher dose of an existing drug, aflibercept, that’s already used to treat wet macular degeneration and diabetic macular edema. Americans diagnosed with wet age-related macular ...
Treating people in the early stages of diabetes-related eye disease may help slow the progression of the condition, but a new study also suggests that it can’t help prevent vision loss in the future.
Ranibizumab implants approved by FDA for DME offer a more convenient treatment schedule, reducing injection frequency significantly. The phase 3 Pagoda study showed noninferior visual acuity with ...
NEW YORK, NY-- A new study suggests that eye drops developed by Columbia University researchers could be a more effective–and comfortable–therapy for a common eye disease currently treated with ...
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 ...
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Genentech, a member of the Roche Group (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY), announced today new, five-year efficacy, safety and durability data from the Phase ...
While eye drops can help with diabetes-related symptoms, such as dry eyes or irritation, they do not treat the underlying retinopathy. Diabetic retinopathy is a diabetes-related complication that ...