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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Roche Holding AG (ROG)?s Lucentis won wider U.S. approval to treat a leading cause of vision loss associated with diabetes.
The Food and Drug Administration cleared the monthly injection for diabetic macular edema, the agency said today in a statement. Lucentis is the first approved drug to treat the condition. More than 500,000 people in the U.S. have diabetic macular edema, Anthony Adamis, vice president and global head of ophthalmology at the Genentech unit of Basel, Switzerland-based Roche, said in a telephone interview.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-...wins-backing-to-treat-diabetic-blindness.html
The Food and Drug Administration cleared the monthly injection for diabetic macular edema, the agency said today in a statement. Lucentis is the first approved drug to treat the condition. More than 500,000 people in the U.S. have diabetic macular edema, Anthony Adamis, vice president and global head of ophthalmology at the Genentech unit of Basel, Switzerland-based Roche, said in a telephone interview.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-...wins-backing-to-treat-diabetic-blindness.html