13 days ago | Healio

SAN FRANCISCO - RGX-314 gene therapy demonstrated meaningful reductions in anti-VEGF injections and increases in visual acuity and central retinal thickness among patients with...
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How Exercise Could Save Your Vision

14 days ago | Cathe Friedrich

They're the window to your soul! You want your eyes to stay healthy for a lifetime. When it comes to the sense we value the most, vision tops the list. Most of us will...
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Thermally induced mixing technique could improve treatment of AMD

14 days ago | News Medical

Age-related macular degeneration is the primary cause of central vision loss and results in the center of the visual field being blurred or fully blacked out. Though treatable...
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VIDEO: Novel oral therapy drug safe, effective for wet AMD

17 days ago | Healio

SAN FRANCISCO -Twice daily dosing of oral AKST4290 over the course of 6 weeks improved visual acuity in patients with neovascular age-related macular degeneration, according to...
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Patients with AMD can successfully self-operate OCT device at home

19 days ago | Healio

SAN FRANCISCO - Patients with age-related macular degeneration could successfully self-operate an optical coherence tomography device at home, according to study findings...
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Home monitoring systems, longer-acting drugs should ease burden of retinal disease

20 days ago | Healio

New longer-acting molecules and home monitoring will soon help relieve the increasing burden of age-related macular degeneration and diabetes-related ocular pathologies, both...
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Luminate shows potential in dry AMD

23 days ago | Healio

SAN FRANCISCO - Luminate showed potential for the treatment of intermediate dry age-related macular degeneration, according to study results presented at Retina Subspecialty...
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Risuteganib shows potential in dry AMD

23 days ago | Healio

SAN FRANCISCO - Risuteganib showed potential for the treatment of intermediate dry age-related macular degeneration, according to study results presented at Retina Subspecialty...
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Test combining fundus, OCT imaging improves AMD diagnosis

25 days ago | Healio | 2 articles

SAN FRANCISCO - A screening strategy combining fundus and OCT imaging improved the accuracy of age-related macular degeneration classification, according to data presented at...
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VIDEO: Gene therapy for wet AMD ‘on the horizon'

27 days ago | Healio

SAN FRANCISCO - In the OPTIC trial, patients with wet age-related macular degeneration who were treated with ADVM-022, an intravitreal gene therapy, did not require additional...
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How To Deal With Bone Metastases From Prostate Cancer?

When prostate cancer spreads, it most often spreads to bone. And while the 5-year survival rate for prostate cancer that has not spread is nearly 100 percent. Read more ...

Study may provide novel therapeutic approach for Huntington's, Parkinson's...

Insights from their study may provide a novel therapeutic approach for diseases such as Huntington's and Parkinson's. Read more ...

SURGICAL VIDEO: Iris prosthesis sutured to IOL, implanted during cataract...

NEW YORK - At OSN New York 2019, Brandon D. Ayres, MD, of Wills Eye Hospital, shows the surgical implantation of an iris prosthesis sutured to an IOL in a situation in which... Read more ...

Improving blood vessel health in brain may help combat Alzheimer's

Researchers have found that very slow spontaneous blood vessel pulsations drive the clearance of substances from the brain, indicating that targeting and improving this process... Read more ...

Being active reduces risk of prostate cancer

Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men in the UK , yet we still don't know all of its causes. The largest ever study to use genetics as a measurement for physical... Read more ...

What to know about testosterone injections

Testosterone injections are a hormone treatment for low testosterone in males and postmenopausal symptoms in females. Doctors also use them in masculinization therapy for... Read more ...

Beta Blockers No Help in Advanced Prostate Cancer

]]> - WASHINGTON - A retrospective analysis of close to 40,000 men with high-risk prostate cancer treated at Veterans Affairs health systems found no association between beta... Read more ...

Anti-Amyloid Fails to Deliver for Alzheimer's Disease: What's Next?

Study Authors: Alette M. Wessels, Pierre N. Tariot, et al. Target Audience and Goal Statement: Neurologists, psychologists, radiologists, hematologists, geriatricians... Read more ...

Alzheimer's risk gene and heavy metal exposure may impair cognition

New research in mice suggests that exposure to cadmium can lead to cognitive decline in those with the Alzheimer's risk gene APOE4. Read more ...

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Gene therapy reduces treatment burden, improves vision in wet AMD