|Articles|February 1, 2005

Advances provide sustained drug release for retinal disease

Baltimore—Innovative pharmaceutical delivery systems are showing promise for their potential to provide safe and effective "site-directed" therapy for retinal diseases, said Eugene de Juan Jr., MD, in the Ronald G. Michels Memorial Lecture at the Current Concepts of Ophthalmology meeting.

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