Bayer wins EU watchdog's endorsement for longer Eylea treatment intervals
Published by Global Banking & Finance Review®
Posted on May 23, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 23, 2026
Published by Global Banking & Finance Review®
Posted on May 23, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 23, 2026
Bayer's Eylea can now be administered at six-month intervals, following EU approval, potentially giving it an edge over Roche's Vabysmo.
(Reuters) -German drugmaker Bayer on Friday won an endorsement by the European Medicines Agency to extend the intervals between shots of its anti-blindness treatment Eylea, giving it a potential edge over Roche's rival treatment Vabysmo.
Bayer said in a statement the European Medicines Agency recommended that eye drug Eylea, at a high dose of 8 mg, can be injected at intervals of up to six months to treat wet age-related macular degeneration and diabetic macular oedema.
(Reporting by Ludwig Burger, Editing by Friederike Heine)
Bayer won an endorsement from the European Medicines Agency to extend the intervals between shots of its anti-blindness treatment Eylea.
The European Medicines Agency recommended that Eylea, at a high dose of 8 mg, can be injected at intervals of up to six months.
Eylea is used to treat wet age-related macular degeneration, a condition that can lead to blindness.
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