New guidelines from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) claim that patients suffering from age-related macular degeneration (AMD) need quicker diagnosis and treatment to avoid blindness.

A dozen Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) are poised to lock horns with leading pharmaceutical companies over the right to offer a less expensive drug for the treatment of Macular Degeneration.

Patients with any stage of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) carry signs of the disease in their blood. And scientists from the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary now believe they have discovered a lab test which could identify potential sufferers b

A project named Macustar has been launched with the aim of reducing the burden of AMD across Europe. Led by the University of Bonn, and involving UK input from UCL and Moorfields among others, the research will involve 700 AMD patients from 20 clinical si

Phase 1 clinical trials have shown that a new therapy which uses viruses to introduce a gene into the eye is potentially safe for humans, and that it may be effective in preserving the vision of people with wet age-related macular degeneration.

Scientists at the University of Birmingham have developed a new therapy for age-related macular degeneration which could spell the end of painful injections for sufferers. The news offers new hope for over 600,000 people in the UK who are afflicted with t

Most people with wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD) are all too familiar with the unpleasant treatment regimen of repeated injections of drugs into their eye.

Canadian researchers studying why obesity is a risk factor in the formation of wet AMD have discovered that gut bacteria which form as the result of a high fat diet may be to blame.

Researchers at the University of Southampton have discovered that a group of proteins associated with Alzheimer’s Disease may be responsible for triggering Macular Degeneration, giving new hope for better treatment of the disease.

Over the years various studies have successfully linked the Mediterranean diet (i.e. high in fruits, vegetables and fish and low in red meat and butter) with health benefits, including reduced risk of both heart disease and skin cancer.