Dr. Miller answers the question: 'How Can Photodynamic Therapy Help AMD?' Aug. 24, 2009— -- Question: What is photodynamic therapy, when is it used to treat age-related macular degeneration (AMD) ...
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) involves injection of photoreactive chemicals, such as verteporfin, that become activated after light irradiation and emit free radicals. These free radicals destroy blood ...
(Nanowerk News) Researchers at the LKS Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong (HKUMed), and collaborators from the Zhongshan Ophthalmic Centre of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, have ...
A research team from HKUMed developed a photoactivatable prodrug nanomedicine for age-related macular degeneration (AMD) therapy. The research team members include: (from left) Dr Li Jia, Xu Shuting, ...
A new generation of gene therapies is poised to reshape the treatment of age-related macular degeneration by prompting the body to make its own anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) proteins ...
The 2003 annual meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) was held in May in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The retinal sessions were dominated by reports of new treatments ...
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