Patient Assistance Survey – The Patient Access Network Needs Your Help!

 The Patient Access Network (PAN) Foundation is hosting a survey about patient assistance.  The PAN Foundation is a national nonprofit organization that helps people living with life-threatening, chronic and rare diseases pay for the out-of-pocket costs of their prescription medications. Prevent Blindness has been working with PAN for some time to provide patients with education [Read More]

All Avenues Need To Be Considered For Improving Vision

Presbyopia and cataracts are the most prevalent vision-robbing conditions older people. A paper soon to be published in The Lancet (Volume 5, No. 9, e888–e897, September 2017) estimates that, in 2015, 36 million people in the world were blind and 217 million people were severely or moderately vision impaired. It also estimated that 1.1 billion [Read More]

Anti-VEGF Treatment Should Not Be Expected to Improve Vision

Clearing up a misunderstanding Anti-VEGF drugs for treating wet age-related macular degeneration are highly successful at inhibiting neovascularization, but they are limited to that alone. Clinical trials for Lucentis (ranibizumab) and Eylea (aflibercept) are showing better than 90% success at blocking the growth factors responsible for uncontrolled blood vessel growth into the retina, and off-label [Read More]