Astellas Pharma’s Izervay (avacincaptad pegol), a drug for geographic atrophy (GA) secondary to age-related macular degeneration (AMD), cut the rate of GA lesion growth versus sham through two years of treatment, according to the latest PIII trial data. In the…
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