I decided to begin this online Journal for two reasons, the first was to put some of my published columns and reports online and make them available to ophthalmic researchers and historians, and the second was because I became interested in the potential for some of the new drugs I had been reading about to stop macular degeneration cold in its tracks. During the summer of 2005, I read a review by Lynne Peterson, of Trends-in-Medicine , of what had happened at the A merican Society of Retina Specialists (ASRS) Meeting held that summer in Montreal. As I wrote in one of my first original pieces for this blog ( Avastin: A New Hope for Treating AMD ) in late January 2006, Lynne had reported about two drugs from Genentech – Lucentis and, for the first time, its sister drug, Avastin – and how they had the ability not only to stop the progression of AMD, but to actually improve vision for those afflicted with the disease. As she wrote, “Word spread like a tsunami through the American So...
ADL Chronicles – Of Silk Purses and Lead Balloons
This posting has been moved to a separate blog – ADL Chronicles. Please click on the link to get there. Of Silk Purses and Lead Balloons