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... oxygen to retinal tissue being deprived of oxygen because of restricted blood flow. This condition occurs predominantly in patients with diabetic retinopathy ( http://www.nei.nih.gov/health/diabetic/retinopathy.asp ), which affects an estimated 5.5 million people each year. Elias Greenbaum of the ...Sanofi-aventis Announces Second Quarter 2009 Results
... of a 5-year study of Lantus ((R)) versus NPH insulin on progression of retinopathy in patients with type 2 diabetes. These results demonstrated that the two treatments showed similar effects on the progression of retinopathy and provided similar overall safety. There was no observable difference in ...Paloma Pharmaceuticals to Present at the American Association for Cancer Research
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