And it's timely -- we're seeing an epidemic of age-related macular degeneration with our aging population.
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Older people with HIV have twice as many age-related health conditions as their HIV negative peers.
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Then it occurred to me how often age-related thought bubbles crop up in the business world.
They could then see whether "age-related misconceptions" existed and look at action to remedy them.
The study backs findings by other U.S. scientists, who warned that physical inactivity can hasten age-related decline.
It is now focused on seeking treatments for major eye diseases, including Wet AMD, or age-related macular degeneration.
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With an increasing elderly population in many countries, more people will be at risk of age-related visual impairment.
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Lucentis is a prescription drug for the treatment of patients with wet age-related macular degeneration and macular edema.
Previous research has indicated that low-level lead exposure may increase the risk of a number of chronic age-related diseases.
Wilkinson: There are other data that have incriminated smoking in age-related macular degeneration.
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As both a young retail manager and the CEO of a company I founded, I rarely encountered age-related tension.
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Now Allergan, maker of Botox, wants to spread fear of "brow furrow"--age-related vertical lines between the eyebrows--to middle America.
In this study, the researchers tested the skin patch on mice with an age-related brain degeneration similar to Alzheimer's.
Mice given the drug every three days from birth suffered far less age-related body-wasting than those which were not.
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This important role is quite helpful reduce the age-related decline in bone mass.
They did, though, continue to experience age-related problems in tissues that do not produce P16INK4A as they get old.
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The proteins were activated in mice bred to mimic the effects of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and diabetic retinopathy.
The story everyone's writing is this: Genentech's being hurt by weakening sales of Lucentis, its drug for age-related macular degeneration.
The shadow chancellor also attacked the decision to freeze the age-related pension allowance, labelling it a "tax grab on pensioners".
Another interesting age-related anomaly concerns the decrease in total body water and the relative increase in body fat seen in older people.
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There are two forms of age-related macular degeneration, or AMD: the dry form, known as non-neovascular, and the wet form, called neovascular.
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This is an age-related disease that damages the part of the eye that perceives fine detail, according to the National Eye Institute.
For most countries the pressure from age-related spending still looks years away.
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But if you've smoked, and then stopped there is irreversible damage, which combined with age-related decline can significantly affect their quality of life.
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That could represent further problems for Eyetech, which, along with Pfizer, already sells a treatment called Macugen for the disease--age-related macular degeneration (AMD).
Far more progress might be made by targeting longevity genes to develop multipronged drugs aimed at diabetes, Alzheimer's, cancer and other age-related maladies.
Sirna already has a collaboration with Allergan for its lead compound, a drug to treat age-related macular degeneration, a leading cause of blindness.
Inactivity, poor nutrition, and age-related changes, all help to reduce bone mass at the rate of approximately 1% per year after age 40.
Eyetech shares soared last year based on the success of Macugen, a treatment for age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a leading cause of blindness.
The rate of decline of most T-cell and B-cell lymphocytes was faster in men, while men also showed a more rapid age-related decline in two cytokines.
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