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Genentech letter warns of stroke risk with ranibizumab

South San Francisco-Genentech Inc. is advising ophthalmologists that it is seeing a slightly higher incidence of stroke among patients using the 0.5-mg dose of its ranibizumab injection (Lucentis) to treat wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD).

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