Got a macular disease (as a commenter to my previous Google Glass post does)?
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The Macular Disease Society (MDS) said that over the last two years nearly 1, 000 people had retained some sight - which they would almost certainly otherwise have lost - as a result of receiving photodynamic therapy.
Possible features include a binocular heads up display, corrective lenses, a hearing aid app, color blindness correction, even an app to aid those with macular eye disease.
Two genes predict one's risk of getting the devastating eye disease macular degeneration--and your chances of going blind once you have it.
The disease, macular degeneration, has become a modern scourge of an aging population.
This morning Robyn Karnauskas, the biotechnology analyst at Deutsche Bank argues that strong sales performance by Lucentis in Europe (where the drug is sold by Novartis, which reported earnings this morning) bode well for Eylea in an eye disease call diabetic macular edema.
Today monoclonal antibodies are used to treat rheumatoid arthritis, transplant rejection, psoriasis, Crohn's disease, multiple sclerosis, macular degeneration and several types of cancer.
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).
That could represent further problems for Eyetech (nasdaq: EYET - news - people ), which, along with Pfizer (nyse: PFE - news - people ), already sells a treatment called Macugen for the disease--age-related macular degeneration (AMD).
This drug is approved for macular degeneration and is in testing for diabetic eye disease.
One patient had macular degeneration, a very common but incurable eye disease, and the second had Stargardt disease.
Lower glycemic index diets have been linked to a reduced risk of heart disease, diabetes and age-related macular degeneration, the leading cause of blindness in Americans.
It is a very potent antioxidant, and numerous research studies have found an association between greater intake of beta carotene-containing fruits and vegetables and a reduced risk of disease including heart disease, diabetes, osteoporosis, age-related macular degeneration (the leading cause of blindness in older Americans) and even certain types of cancers.
As well as fighting off cancer and heart disease, vitamin A has also been linked to preventing macular degeneration, and eye condition that can lead to blindness.
However, there are a few noteworthy exceptions - for example, age-related macular degeneration - where the genetic risks explain a substantial proportion of the disease and which , when combined with other non-genetic factors, might be able to accurately identify individuals who will develop the disease in future.
He has been losing sight since he was 9 because of Stargardt's disease, which his website calls the most common form of inherited juvenile macular degeneration.
Not all of these new drugs came from big pharma as biotech companies like Regeneron (Eylea for wet acute macular degeneration), Vertex (Kalydeco for cystic fibrosis) and Incyte (Jakafi for bone marrow disease) had major drugs approved.
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The only disease where a beta carotene supplement may help is in the prevention or slowing of age-related macular degeneration and the associated vision loss.
Even though some doctors have been using Avastin to treat age-related macular degeneration, Genentech developed and received FDA approval in 2006 for Lucentis, a new drug specifically designed for that disease.
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