At least 16 people in two states have gotten severe eye infections, and some have been blinded, from injections of the drug Avastin, according to health authorities and to lawyers representing the ...
The FDA has issued an alert that repackaged intravitreal injections of the drug Avastin have caused at least a dozen serious eye infections in the Miami area, according to an FDA news release. The ...
Even without an FDA approval, Roche’s cancer drug Avastin is widely used by doctors to treat certain eye diseases. Outlook Therapeutics has been trying to get an official approval for a reformulated ...
Due to a shortage of a widely used compounded medicine for serious eye diseases, two leading ophthalmologic groups want Medicare contractors to halt practices that limit coverage of other — albeit ...
LONDON, June 11 (Reuters) - Roche's cancer drug Avastin is a cheap, effective treatment for preventing blindness and should be used routinely in countries that cannot afford the far more costly ...
CHICAGO, April 28 (Reuters) - Roche Holding AG's <ROG.VX> cancer drug Avastin works just as well as its far more expensive eye drug Lucentis in treating vision loss from macular degeneration, but has ...
LONDON (Reuters) - British doctors called on Tuesday for Roche's cancer drug Avastin to be made routinely available as a cheap alternative for treating people with a debilitating eye disorder. Doctors ...
One option for macular degeneration cuts treatment costs from $2,000 to $50. April 4, 2011&#151; -- One drug costs $50 per dose. The other costs $2,000 per dose. Now, new research shows that the drug ...
The Genentech Inc. eye drug Lucentis performed well in a late-stage study of patients with diabetic macular edema — a treatment that could be rejected in the United Kingdom — but the real insight ...
The widely used cancer drug Avastin could save the eyesight of tens of thousands of people with age-related macular degeneration of the wet form, British researchers said Friday. The drug provides an ...
Dear Dr. Roach: I was diagnosed with stage 1 bladder cancer in April. My urologist advised me to have BCG therapy for it. I just completed six weeks of the therapy. I also have macular degeneration in ...