Learned via official notice from work:

For anyone who has these eye conditions or who has ralatives with one or both of them--Medicare has expanded its authorized uses for the drug Macugen to include diabetic macular edema.

This change is effective immediately. Macugen can now be authorized for the treatment of two eye conditions:

* Exudative senile macular degeneration (wet age-related macular degeneration) or
diabetic macular edema.