W hen diagnosed with diabetic macular edema (DME) in 2017, Sarah Castaneda, 41, thought she would lose her eyesight completely. At least, that’s what her doctor told her would happen if she didn’t ...

Eye injections are the only medication currently available to treat diabetes-related retinopathy. Modern eye injections are not painful and don’t cause many side effects. Diabetic retinopathy affects ...

These injections can restore your eyesight and ward off vision loss. And they aren’t nearly as stressful as you might think. No one really looks forward to getting a shot — and when you’re living with ...

An RNA-editing gene therapy has been developed that switches off the key driver of common eye conditions affecting diabetics and the elderly. The researchers behind the innovative treatment say that ...

CHICAGO — Specialists are losing money with every intravitreal injection they administer, regardless of the drug being injected, an investigator warns. Each injection we do costs $127.74 — $1.60 for ...

Welcome to Diagnosis Diaries. Throughout this series, we'll share real stories from real people about receiving a diagnosis for a chronic condition. Share on Pinterest Illustration by Maya Chastain ...

An emerging approach that uses aqueous chlorhexidine to prevent infections after intravitreal injections to deliver drugs into the eye is as effective as the long prevailing method that uses povidone ...

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