Second Sight Announces Publication of Positive Results in 3-Year FLORA Study of the Argus II

SYLMAR, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Second Sight Medical Products, Inc. (“Second Sight” or “the Company”) (Nasdaq:EYES), a developer, manufacturer and marketer of implantable visual prosthetics to restore some useful vision to blind patients, today announced the publication of a positive 3-year FLORA study in the Australian journal Clinical And Experimental Optometry for the Argus® II Retinal Prosthesis System (“Argus II”). The Functional Low-Vision Observer Rated Assessment (FLORA), a multi-part


Anti-complement C5 monotherapy ineffective in reducing geographic atrophy lesion size

MIAMI — An anti-complement C5 therapy had no different effect on geographic atrophy lesion size than sham therapy, according to a presentation at Angiogenesis, Exudation, and Degeneration 2016.“No efficacy was observed,” Parisa Zamiri, MD, PhD, said of the treatment drug LFG316 in her presentation on the drug’s 12-month safety and efficacy results.