The wait is over: Lucentis has arrived in Europe

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Retinal specialists have a new therapy in their armoury: on January 24th 2007, the European Commission approved ranibizumab (Lucentis, Novartis) for the treatment of patients with wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD).

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