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    Month: June 2020

    Are some patients with CNV unresponsive to anti-VEGF?

    Posted on June 14, 2020July 12, 2020 by Dan Roberts
  • June 14, 2020

    Are some patients with CNV unresponsive to anti-VEGF?

    Since 2004, anti-VEGF drug injections have been shown to be highly effective in suppressing choroidal neovascularization (CNV) in the retinas of people with wet age-related macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy. They have also been shown to suppress further CNV for as long as 12 weeks, depending upon the drug being used and the disease state […]

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  • Telehealth usage increases during COVID-19

    Posted on June 14, 2020 by Dan Roberts
  • June 14, 2020

    Telehealth usage increases during COVID-19

    A survey of 2,000 adults in the U.S. has shown that 42% have used telehealth services in place of their regular in-person visits to eye clinics since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020. Telehealth is a service made available by way of telecommunication devices like computers and smart phones. Using this recent […]

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  • OpRegen® for geographic atrophy maintains positive results

    Posted on June 6, 2020 by Dan Roberts
  • June 6, 2020

    OpRegen® for geographic atrophy maintains positive results

    Lineage Cell Therapeutics (originally BioTime, Inc.) has announced positive results with its experimental OpRegen® therapy for geographic atrophy (GA), the advanced stage of dry macular degeneration. The company began enrolling and treating U.S.-based patients in 2017 under David S. Boyer, M.D. (Retina-Vitreous Associates Medical Group, Los Angeles) and H. Richard McDonald, M.D., (West Coast Retina […]

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  • Experimental stem cell treatment continues to maintain vision

    Posted on June 5, 2020June 5, 2020 by Dan Roberts
  • June 5, 2020

    Experimental stem cell treatment continues to maintain vision

    A procedure reported here in March 2018 has been shown to continue being a safe and effective method for introducing stem cells into the retina. Eye researcher Professor Pete Coffey, who founded the London Project over a decade ago, has confirmed that two study patients have maintained improvements in their vision five years after surgery. […]

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  • Vision loss influences sound perception

    Posted on June 4, 2020June 5, 2020 by Dan Roberts
  • June 4, 2020

    Vision loss influences sound perception

    People with severe vision loss can less accurately judge the distance of nearby sounds, potentially putting them more at risk of injury, according to new research published in the journal Scientific Reports. Researchers from Anglia Ruskin University’s Vision and Eye Research Institute (VERI) tested participants with different levels of vision loss, presenting them with speech, music […]

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