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Patients to get eyesight drug

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A drug that could save the sight of thousands of people is to be made available on the NHS in England.

Lucentis treats age-related macular degeneration (AMD), but previously Nice recommended that patients could not get the drug until they were blind in one eye.

Branwen Jeffreys reports.

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