{"id":198869,"date":"2024-11-07T05:23:06","date_gmt":"2024-11-07T11:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/scientists-determine-why-some-patients-dont-respond-well-to-wet-macular-degeneration-treatment-show-how-new-experimental-drug-can-bridge-gap"},"modified":"2024-11-07T05:23:06","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T11:23:06","slug":"scientists-determine-why-some-patients-dont-respond-well-to-wet-macular-degeneration-treatment-show-how-new-experimental-drug-can-bridge-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/scientists-determine-why-some-patients-dont-respond-well-to-wet-macular-degeneration-treatment-show-how-new-experimental-drug-can-bridge-gap","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Determine Why Some Patients Don\u2019t Respond Well to Wet Macular Degeneration Treatment, Show How New Experimental Drug Can Bridge Gap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-determine-why-some-patients-dont-respond-well-to-wet-macular-degeneration-treatment-show-how-new-experimental-drug-can-bridge-gap2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new study from researchers at Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins Medicine explains not only why some patients with wet age-related macular degeneration (or \u201cwet\u201d AMD) fail to have vision improvement with treatment, but also how an experimental drug could be used with existing wet AMD treatments\u2026<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Wilmer Eye Institute researchers have found that \u2018wet\u2019 macular degeneration patients who don\u2019t respond well to treatment have an increased protein in their eyes and that an experimental drug can help improve vision gains. \u203a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study from researchers at Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins Medicine explains not only why some patients with wet age-related macular degeneration (or \u201cwet\u201d AMD) fail to have vision improvement with treatment, but also how an experimental drug could be used with existing wet AMD treatments\u2026 Wilmer Eye Institute researchers have found that \u2018wet\u2019 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}