Eye injections of the drug Avastin, used to treat retinal diseases, bring no greater risk of endophthalmitis, a potentially blinding eye infection, than injections with the much more expensive drug ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Repackaged injections of the cancer drug Avastin, also known as bevacizumab, have caused a cluster of serious eye infections in the Miami, Florida area, the U.S. Food and Drug ...

Five patients are now blind after receiving Avastin injections for macular degeneration, according to a New York Times report. Read the full report in Becker’s ASC Review on the Avastin injections.

Even without an FDA approval, Roche’s cancer drug Avastin is widely used by doctors to treat certain eye diseases. Outlook Therapeutics has been trying to get an official approval for a reformulated ...

LONDON, June 11 (Reuters) - Roche's cancer drug Avastin is a cheap, effective treatment for preventing blindness and should be used routinely in countries that cannot afford the far more costly ...

Several patients have reported experiencing complications after receiving contaminated Avastin injections at a VA medical center in Tennessee, according to a Tennessean report.

Due to a shortage of a widely used compounded medicine for serious eye diseases, two leading ophthalmologic groups want Medicare contractors to halt practices that limit coverage of other — albeit ...

The Genentech Inc. eye drug Lucentis performed well in a late-stage study of patients with diabetic macular edema — a treatment that could be rejected in the United Kingdom — but the real insight ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I was diagnosed with stage 1 bladder cancer in April. My urologist advised me to have BCG therapy for it. I just completed six weeks of the therapy. I also have macular degeneration in ...

The FDA has issued an alert that repackaged intravitreal injections of the drug Avastin have caused at least a dozen serious eye infections in the Miami area, according to an FDA news release. The ...