Implant appears effective for treating inflammatory disease within the eye

Tuesday, January 11, 2011 - 12:24 in Health & Medicine

An implant that releases the medication dexamethasone within the eye appears safe and effective for the treatment of some types of uveitis (swelling and inflammation in the eye's middle layer), according to a report posted online today that will appear in the May print issue of Archives of Ophthalmology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals...

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