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Article: CIBA Vision Corporation and QLT PhotoTherapeutics Inc. announce Visudyne therapy filed with the European Medicines Evaluation Agency.
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- August 9, 1999
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Companies seek approval for breakthrough therapy to treat wet
age-related macular degeneration
ATLANTA and VANCOUVER, Aug. 9 /CNW-PRN/ - CIBA Vision Corporation, the eye care unit of Novartis AG, and QLT PhotoTherapeutics Inc., today announced the filing of Visudyne(TM) therapy with the European Medicines Evaluation Agency (EMEA) for marketing clearance in the European Union (EU) for the treatment of wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the leading cause of blindness in people over the age of 50 in the western world.
The specific indication requested is for the treatment of AMD in patients with predominantly classic subfoveal choroidal ...