People with a condition called wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD) often receive eye injections. These eye injections can help to improve vision and also stop the damage that causes vision to ...

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Larry Hoffheimer watched helplessly as his mother, Florence, went from doctor to doctor seeking better glasses more than 20 years ago. Getting a diagnosis of macular degeneration didn’t resolve the ...

If you have wet age-related macular degeneration (wet AMD) or another disease of the retina, your doctor may recommend treatment with an anti-VEGF drug. VEGF, or vascular endothelial growth factor, is ...

Wet macular degeneration is a form of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a serious eye disease that affects the macula, the central portion of the retina that’s responsible for sharp, central ...

Iconic Fleetwood Mac frontwoman Stevie Nicks, 76, revealed she was diagnosed with wet macular degeneration in a recent interview with Rolling Stone. Macular degeneration is an eye disease, usually age ...

Age-related macular degeneration is the leading cause of vision loss in those who are age 50 or older. In fact, almost 20 million people in the U.S. have some type of age-related macular degeneration, ...

Researchers think they know why eye injections for “wet” AMD sometimes fail The eye injections actually increase a protein linked to new blood vessel growth An experimental drug reduced levels of ...

Lindsay Curtis is a health & medical writer in South Florida. She worked as a communications professional for health nonprofits and the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of ...

Age-related macular degeneration, also called AMD, is the deterioration of the center of the retina called the macula. The macula is the part of the retina which is responsible for our central vision ...