Retinal diseases such as age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and diabetic retinopathy affect millions of people globally, often leading to vision loss with minimal straightforward treatment.

New treatments for macular degeneration may help preserve your eyesight for longer, without the need for frequent injections. Some of these treatments include retinal gene therapy and the "port" ...

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) once meant a slow, irreversible loss of vision, and many people still believe that's ...

Optometrists (healthcare providers who offer standard eye care) can diagnose wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD) but can't treat it. Therapies for wet AMD are primarily led by ophthalmologists ...

Both anti-VEGF and surgical treatments improve VA in AMD-related submacular hemorrhage, with no statistically significant difference between the two treatments. Anti-VEGF injections may be associated ...

Researchers think they know why eye injections for “wet” AMD sometimes fail The eye injections actually increase a protein linked to new blood vessel growth An experimental drug reduced levels of ...

Researchers at Science Tokyo developed an mRNA vaccine that suppressed abnormal retinal blood vessel growth in mouse models. The vaccine can be administered intramuscularly and showed effectiveness ...

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Genentech, a member of the Roche Group (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Susvimo ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If your vision is blurry or fuzzy, or if you notice that straight lines appear curved or wavy, they could be symptoms of ...

Doctors have found that metformin, an everyday medicine for diabetes, is associated with less progression of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the commonest cause of blindness in western ...