After federal inspectors detailed the depth of DME fraud, CMS designated South Florida a demonstration project.

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Notably, 2Q was the first full quarter post Lucentis approval in DME in Jan-2011.

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As of now, the first big trial of Eylea in DME is just starting.

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The drug is the first and the only FDA-approved treatment for DME patients, which are treated by laser surgery otherwise.

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The number is expected to cross 2 million as an estimated 10% of diabetes patients eventually get DME during their lives.

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The approval officially opens a huge market for the drug as the company estimates that nearly 560, 000 of the nearly 26 million diabetes patients in the U.S. suffer from DME.

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The Report has developed a Deprivation and Marginalization in Education (DME) database drawing on a range of household surveys covering 80 countries and providing a more nuanced picture of education poverty (those with less than 4 years of education), extreme education poverty (those with less than 2 years of education) and those in the bottom 20 per cent (with the fewest years of education in a given society).

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