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FDA Approved Eye Drop Oxervate to Treat Neurotrophic Keratitis

Neurotrophic Keratitis (NK) is a rare eye disorder that affects the corneal sensation leading to a loss in vision. Till date, only invasive surgeries and palliative treatments were available to treat the disease. But now, there is a major breakthrough in this regard since the US-FDA has approved the Italian company Dompé’s eye drop, Oxervate in order to treat NK.
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- August 27, 2018
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Photographic glow in eye? COATS DISEASE

Violet was diagnosed with Coats disease. The pupil in one eye was clear and the iris had less color than the other eye. It is a rare and painful condition causing blindness due to abnormal growth of blood vessels behind the eye. She was completely blind in her left eye and requires emergency treatment to preserve the sight in her right eye.
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- June 11, 2018
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FDA rolls out an early and historic OK for Spark’s pioneering gene therapy

Spark Therapeutics $ONCE has scored an historic FDA approval of Luxturna, the world’s first such AAV-delivered gene therapy designed to cure a rare eye disease triggered by a genetic mutation. The drug is OK’d for RPE65 mutation linked retinal dystrophy. The treatment uses a viral vector to insert the correct copy of a gene retinal cells need to create a protein that turns light into electric signals which can restore vision lost to the disease. As with the earlier pioneering approval of the world’s first CAR-T, FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb did the honors in recognizing the importance of this approval. And he says the agency will make sure that the regulatory path is straight and clear for the rest of the field looking to following Spark’s footsteps. “We’re at a turning point when it comes to this novel form of therapy and at the FDA, we’re focused on establishing ...
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- December 20, 2017
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