Eye injections are the only medication currently available to treat diabetes-related retinopathy. Modern eye injections are not painful and don’t cause many side effects. Diabetic retinopathy affects ...
If you have wet age-related macular degeneration (wet AMD) or another disease of the retina, your doctor may recommend treatment with an anti-VEGF drug. VEGF, or vascular endothelial growth factor, is ...
An RNA-editing gene therapy has been developed that switches off the key driver of common eye conditions affecting diabetics and the elderly. The researchers behind the innovative treatment say that ...
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 ...
In a preliminary study of 106 people with “wet” age-related macular degeneration, Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers report that as many as a third of those with the blinding retinal disease may ...