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 ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Repackaged injections of the cancer drug Avastin, also known as bevacizumab, have caused a cluster of serious eye infections in the Miami, Florida area, the U.S. Food and Drug ...

India’s CDSCO Warns Against Using Roche’s Avastin as Eye Treatment India’s Central Drugs Standards Control Organization (CDSCO) issued an alert Thursday notifying state and local authorities that ...

Five patients are now blind after receiving Avastin injections for macular degeneration, according to a New York Times report. Read the full report in Becker’s ASC Review on the Avastin injections. At ...

Several patients have reported experiencing complications after receiving contaminated Avastin injections at a VA medical center in Tennessee, according to a Tennessean report. Read the full report in ...

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 ...

The FDA has issued an alert that repackaged intravitreal injections of the drug Avastin have caused at least a dozen serious eye infections in the Miami area, according to an FDA news release. The ...