Lucentis is a Medicare Part B-covered drug. approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of wet AMD. Avastin is a Part B-covered drug approved by FDA for the treatment of various forms of. cancer, but smaller doses of the drug are being used off-label to treat wet AMD.
A brig is a United States military prison aboard a United States Navy or Coast Guard vessel, or at an American naval or Marine Corps base. The term derives from the Navy's historical use of twin-mast sailing shipsâor brigsâas prison ships.
The brigâs foremast is smaller than the main mast. The fore mast holds a fore sail, fore top sail, fore top gallant sail, and fore royal. Between the fore mast and the bowsprit are the fore staysail, jib, and flying jib. The brig USS Somers, sunk in the Mexican-American War. 2  HMS Beagle was built as a brig (1820) for the Royal Navy. 3  She was deployed as a survey vessel to survey the coasts of South America, Australia, and Africa.