Phase III ocriplasmin data published as regulatory decisions loom
This article was originally published in Scrip
Executive Summary
While they await regulatory decisions in the US and EU for the ophthalmic injection ocriplasmin, Thrombogenics and its partner Alcon, a division of Novartis, published results from two Phase III studies for what could be the first approved treatment for vitreomacular adhesion (VMA) in New England Journal of Medicine (16 August).
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