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 ...

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 ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs said it has stopped using the drug Avastin to treat eye disease, as it investigates concerns about serious infections and blindness from the drug, according to a ...

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. Read the full report in ...

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. At ...

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 National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, has raised an alert over the circulation of counterfeit Avastin vials 400 mg/16 ml and directed its zonal directors and state ...

PARIS (Reuters) - French medicine agency ANSM has written to Roche asking the Swiss drugmaker for information on off-label uses of its cancer drug Avastin, which ANSM wants to let doctors prescribe as ...