Current treatments sometimes fail to help people with "wet" age-related macular degeneration -- and researchers now think ...

People with diabetes face a number of health challenges related to their chronic condition, and loss of vision due to retinal ...

A study from researchers at Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins Medicine explains not only why some patients with wet ...

Masking during intravitreal anti-VEGF injections was associated with a similar ... with higher odds of developing the inflammatory eye condition, according to research presented at the 2024 ...

Opthea is a clinical-stage biotech firm developing Sozinibercept, targeting VEGF-C and VEGF-D for wet AMD, with Phase 3 ...

Their research, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, highlights the potential of gene therapy to ...

Your doctor will most likely prescribe eye injections to target the fluid leakage threatening your vision. For this treatment, your doctor injects medicine into your eyeball with a very small needle.

They're the only type of wet AMD treatment most people get. Eye injections may sound scary, but your doctor can make it so you don’t feel the procedure at all. Your doctor will put a numbing ...

Study points to approach to improving anti-VEGF therapy for all wet AMD patients, and help subset of patients who lose vision ...

"What we saw in this paper was a paradoxical increase of ANGPTL4 in patients that received anti-VEGF injections -- the anti-VEGF therapy itself turned on expression of this protein." The team compared ...

To combat this, doctors prescribe medications that slow the growth ... fewer than half of patients who receive monthly anti-VEGF eye injections wind up showing any major improvements in their ...