Queensland’s Crisafulli government has finally put on the record their definition of a woman. The Liberal National Party’s Minister for Women, Fiona Simpson, quietly rolled out the amended definition ...

Geographic atrophy due to age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of irreversible blindness and affects more than 5 million persons worldwide. No therapies to restore vision in ...

Pictured above: Photography of the PRIMA implant implanted in the human retina (left) and enlarged to show detail (right). The PRIMA implant (bright light in the center) is 2 × 2mm wide (about the ...

Women are far more likely than men to end up with Alzheimer's disease (AD). This may, at least partially, be due to women's longer average lifespans, but many scientists think there is probably more ...

The Delhi High Court has dismissed Roche's appeal, allowing Natco to launch a generic version of Risdiplam for spinal muscular atrophy. This decision prioritizes public health and patient access over ...

We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact [email protected]. Eighty-four percent of eyes that received a clinical ...

Despite possessing a solid data package on the potential of high-dose Sprinraza in spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), Biogen will now need to revise its application if it hopes to secure an FDA nod. The ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Tuesday issued a Complete Response Letter (CRL) for Scholar Rock’s (NASDAQ:SRRK) apitegromab Biologics License Application (BLA) for spinal muscular ...

Mary is the bedrock of her family. “She’s the one we all go to,” says her son Eric. “She’s selfless, extremely sweet, very personable—but she can also be very feisty.” So when she returned from an eye ...

The earlier patients with potentially blinding geographic atrophy start treatment with the complement inhibitor pegcetacoplan, the more retinal tissue they retain 4 years later compared with patients ...

Vitamin supplements known to potentially slow the progression of intermediate age-related macular degeneration do not seem to have a similar effect on geographic atrophy, an advanced form of the dry ...

While pivotal research on therapies for neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD) and geographic atrophy (GA) focused on one condition or the other, retina specialists commonly encounter ...