The $2 Drug That Millions of Patients Aren’t Being Told About

What people living with age-related macular degeneration (AMD) need to know

Kat Kennedy
Elemental
Published in
9 min readApr 6, 2021

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Black-and-white ketch of an eye with long lashes; tiny blue pills on the iris and a drug molecule on the pupil are the only source of color.
Illustration by Christi Williams for Elemental

“I couldn’t open or close my eyes without pain. It was like salt or shards of glass… all I could do was go to bed,” said 71-year-old Beth, who was diagnosed with age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD) in both eyes last year.

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Kat Kennedy
Elemental

Desert dwellin’ third culture kid | PhD student studying sleep and health