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Contaminated Avastin Causing Eye Infections and Blindness in Patients

Connecticut patients being treated for wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD) with eye injections should be aware that, last week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a release alerting health care professionals to a cluster of serious eye infections … Continue reading

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Avastin is Linked to Blindness in Five Patients

By Jim Lewis, Medical Malpractice Attorney My colleague Emily Mapp Brannon has posted a new blog to the Virginia Injuries website about how a controversial cancer drug being used to treat eye disease has been linked to the blindness of … Continue reading

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FDA Grants Hearing on Proposed Withdrawal of Marketing Approval for Avastin

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is moving forward with a process to withdraw approval for marketing Genentech's Avastin (bevacizumab) as a first-line treatment for metastatic breast cancer, a type of cancer that that spreads to other organs. Avastin, an … Continue reading

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