Syfovre will be available as an injection in early March.
The Food and Drug Administration recently approved the first drug to treat geographic atrophy, a form of macular degeneration, which affects a person's central vision.
While geographic atrophy particularly affects people over the age of 50, it is one of the leading causes of vision loss and impacts 1 million people in the U.S. Normandin joined Syfovre's clinical trial to test the drug on his right eye and said his right eye has been stabilized to the point where he can"get down pretty far" on an eye chart. He said his left eye still needs to be treated or it"will go blind." "It's not something you are going to know intuitively," CBS News chief medical correspondent Dr. Jon LaPook explains.
There are two forms of macular degeneration, a wet form and a dry form. The wet form causes abnormal blood vessels to grow under the retina causing scarring on the macula. It impacts 15% of people and an available treatment option has been on the market for many years.
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