FDA approves Vuity, first eye drop to treat presbyopia
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Allergan, an AbbVie company, announced the FDA approval of the eye drop, Vuity, for the treatment of presbyopia.
The approval for the pilocarpine HCl ophthalmic solution 1.25% was granted Oct. 28, according to the FDA’s website.
In this exclusive video, George O. Waring IV, MD, principal investigator for the GEMINI I and GEMINI 2 phase 3 clinical studies of Vuity for the treatment of presbyopia, discusses the importance of the approval to the ophthalmic community.
“We learned that this drug has a rapid onset of almost 15 minutes and an exceptional duration, so this is a durable drug out to 6 hours relative to controls that improved distance-corrected near visual acuity almost three lines without affecting distance vision,” Waring said in the video.