Opinion: Medicare drug pricing rules will delay access to drugs … Study: JAK inhibitors linked to lower age-related macular degeneration risk … This is how sleep affects dementia risk … Geriatric...
Clinical briefs for Friday, March 15
By
Kristen Fischer
Mar 15, 2024
Slow speech may indicate cognitive decline better than forgetting words … Hemochromatosis linked to more disease in older adults … Healthcare workers, nonworkers differ on how to divvy up resources...
Report: Age-related eye diseases raise risk for falls, fractures
By
Kristen Fischer
Jan 02, 2024
Older adults who have cataract, age-related macular degeneration (AMD) or glaucoma are at a higher risk for falls and fractures, according to a new study. Glaucoma raises an individual’s risk for taking...
Preventable diseases tied to common, age-related eye condition, study finds
By
Alicia Lasek
Jan 11, 2023
Age-related macular degeneration is linked to two potentially treatable diseases, suggesting new pathways for preventing progression and blindness, investigators say.
Aqueous biomarkers may help predict treatment response in nvAMD
Feb 01, 2022
Treated patients who required less frequent anti-VEGF injections had increased apolipoprotein B100
Clinical Briefs for Wednesday, December 18
By
Alicia Lasek
Dec 17, 2019
Simple tool predicts life expectancy after dementia diagnosis … FDA approves first triglyceride drug, a complement to statin therapy … Older women top list of those who take weekly sleep meds … NIH...
Study links diet to late-stage eye disease
By
Alicia Lasek
Dec 11, 2019
People who follow a Western-style diet are three times more likely to develop late-stage macular degeneration, say researchers.
Trial drug improves vision in age-related macular degeneration
By
Alicia Lasek
Oct 16, 2019
Patients with “dry” age-related macular degeneration have shown dramatic eyesight improvements in a phase 2 clinical drug trial.
Injectable drugs decrease risk of blindness-related nursing home admission by nearly 20%, researchers...
By
Tim Mullaney
Feb 03, 2014
Injectable drugs introduced in the last decade have proven effective in preserving vision and preventing nursing home admissions among those with age-related wet macular degeneration, according to recently...
Avastin more likely to cause blindness than Lucentis, study reports
By
McKnight's Staff
Jun 19, 2012
The cheaper of the two rival macular degeneration treatments could lead to blindness or other adverse events, new research determined.