New data presented at the American Society of Retina Specialists 2024 examine the benefits and adverse event profiles of two ...

About eight out of 10 people with macular degeneration have the "dry" form of the disease ... progression toward geographic atrophy, the last stage of AMD, while untreated patients had a 24% ...

The Food and Drug Administration will allow a new device to be marketed as a treatment for dry age-related macular degeneration.

Have your parents or grandparents ever had trouble driving, reading or recognizing faces? They might be suffering from age-related macular degeneration, a progressive disease afflicting about 11 ...

Dry age-related macular degeneration accounts for about 80 percent ... Dry AMD occurs in three stages (early, intermediate and late) and usually progresses slowly. If deposits grow in size ...

In the early stages of dry macular disease, there is little vision loss and little awareness symptoms, so it is common to be ...

Current treatments sometimes fail to help people with "wet" age-related macular degeneration-- and researchers now think they ...

A new study explains not only why some patients with wet age-related macular degeneration (or 'wet' AMD) fail to have vision improvement with treatment, but also how an experimental drug could be used ...

HealthDay News — Socioeconomic factors are linked to an increased risk for age-related macular degeneration (AMD), according to a study published online July 1 in Health Data Science.

Practice-changing studies in dry age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and promising new directions in wet AMD, presented at ...

Light Therapy Might Help Ease 'Dry' Form of Macular Degeneration By Dennis Thompson ... progression toward geographic atrophy, the last stage of AMD, while untreated patients had a 24% increase ...