Age-related wet macular degeneration, a disabling eye disease, can be treated by an intravenous injection of a dye that when activated by lasers, attacks rogue blood vessels leaking into the retina.

Miller, J.W. 1999. Photodynamic therapy for AMD. The Research to Prevent Blindness Science Writers Seminar in Ophthalmology. September 26–29. Universal City, Calif.

Joan W. Miller
Harvard Medical School
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
243 Charles Street
Boston, MA 02114

From Science News, Vol. 156, No. 16, October 16, 1999, p. 255. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.