Lucentis (ranibizumab) is a brand-name eye injection that’s prescribed for certain eye conditions in adults. As with other drugs, Lucentis can cause side effects, such as eye pain or irritation. More ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

CHICAGO -- Availability of a bevacizumab biosimilar for ophthalmic use could eliminate a lower-cost treatment option for a wide variety of off-label indications and add hundreds of millions of dollars ...