New treatment options, better hope of preventing vision loss from diabetes
Sunday, November 22, 2015 - 05:20
in Health & Medicine
This National Diabetes Month, there is some good news for people with eye complications from diabetes. A network of researchers has found that the drug Lucentis (ranibizumab) can be highly effective for treating proliferative diabetic retinopathy, an eye disease that can occur as a complication of diabetes. The researchers say this is the first major advance in therapy in 40 years.