LOS ANGELES, Nov 28 (Reuters) - A U.S. Senator said on Wednesday he is investigating Genentech Inc's plan to stop supplying its cancer drug Avastin to pharmacies that divide vials of the medicine so ...
The Department of Veterans Affairs said it has stopped using the drug Avastin to treat eye disease, as it investigates concerns about serious infections and blindness from the drug, according to a ...
LONDON, June 11 (Reuters) - Roche's cancer drug Avastin is a cheap, effective treatment for preventing blindness and should be used routinely in countries that cannot afford the far more costly ...
Even without an FDA approval, Roche’s cancer drug Avastin is widely used by doctors to treat certain eye diseases. Outlook Therapeutics has been trying to get an official approval for a reformulated ...
CHICAGO, April 28 (Reuters) - Roche Holding AG's <ROG.VX> cancer drug Avastin works just as well as its far more expensive eye drug Lucentis in treating vision loss from macular degeneration, but has ...
Due to a shortage of a widely used compounded medicine for serious eye diseases, two leading ophthalmologic groups want Medicare contractors to halt practices that limit coverage of other — albeit ...
One option for macular degeneration cuts treatment costs from $2,000 to $50. April 4, 2011— -- One drug costs $50 per dose. The other costs $2,000 per dose. Now, new research shows that the drug ...
The Genentech Inc. eye drug Lucentis performed well in a late-stage study of patients with diabetic macular edema — a treatment that could be rejected in the United Kingdom — but the real insight ...
The widely used cancer drug Avastin could save the eyesight of tens of thousands of people with age-related macular degeneration of the wet form, British researchers said Friday. The drug provides an ...
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Wet AMD: Tips on Navigating Anti-VEGF Drug Options
According to Liu, his preferred option is faricimab, a fairly new agent that was FDA-approved for wet AMD in 2022. The drug ...
Dear Dr. Roach: I was diagnosed with stage 1 bladder cancer in April. My urologist advised me to have BCG therapy for it. I just completed six weeks of the therapy. I also have macular degeneration in ...
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