Beyond Biotech - the podcast from Labiotech

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Theialife’s race to bring a childhood myopia treatment to market

Theialife’s race to bring a childhood myopia treatment to market25 Sept44 min

By 2050, nearly half the world's population is expected to be myopic, with around a billion people projected to progress to high myopia — a leading cause of irreversible vision loss later in life. Children face a narrow window in which to intervene, while the eye is still growing, before those structural changes become permanent. Yet despite the scale of the problem, there is still no FDA-approved drug that slows myopia progression in children, a gap underscored just last month when the FDA d...