Hope for People Facing Blindness.

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  • Author(s): Kotz, Deborah
  • Source:
    U.S. News & World Report. 10/16/2006, Vol. 141 Issue 14, p78-78. 1/8p. 1 Color Photograph.
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      RETINAL degeneration; RETINAL diseases; DISEASES in older people; BLINDNESS
    • Abstract:
      This article discusses a treatment for the wet form of age-related macular degeneration, a leading cause of blindness in people over 50. Two studies in the "New England Journal of Medicine" found that some patients given monthly injections of ranibizumab (Lucentis) into the eye to inhibit vessel growth retained their vision. Study leader David Brown, a retinal specialist at the Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas, reports that about one third of the Lucentis group actually experienced improvement.