Beverly Hills eye specialist Edgar Thomas swabbed his patient's eye with anesthetic and reached for a syringe. Avastin Use in Eyes Irks Genentech - Los Angeles Times ...

Monthly eye injections of Avastin (bevacizumab) are as effective as the more expensive drug Eylea (aflibercept) for the treatment of central retinal vein occlusion (CRVO), according to a clinical ...

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 ...

5 eye infections prompt Avastin injection recall. March 19, 2013, 6:04 PM EDT. By JoNel Aleccia and JoNel Aleccia, Senior Writer. A Georgia compounding pharmacy is recalling 40 lots of Avastin ...

Avastin is a cancer drug, but is commonly used to treat the wet form of age-related macular degeneration and other eye diseases because it costs only about $50 an injection, compared with some ...

Antonio Salgado, 79, of Miami got an injection of Avastin into his right eye on July 8. While there were no problems with the seven previous injections of the drug, this one caused tremendous pain ...

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 ...

Antonio Salgado, 79, of Miami got an injection of Avastin into his right eye on July 8. While there were no problems with the seven previous injections of the drug, ...

Avastin, sold by Genentech, is approved to treat cancer, not eye disease, but many doctors use it because it is many times cheaper than an alternative drug.