
The Hon. Jillian Skinner AM reflects on her personal challenge of giving up driving at night, as new research highlights mental health impacts of driving cessation.
Read MoreThe Hon. Jillian Skinner AM reflects on her personal challenge of giving up driving at night, as new research highlights mental health impacts of driving cessation.
Read MoreMacular Disease Foundation Australia (MDFA) is pleased with the Federal Government’s increased investment to make primary health care more affordable and accessible for Australians doing it tough due to the current cost of living crisis.
Read MoreMacular Disease Foundation Australia (MDFA) has welcomed the Federal Government’s decision to defer the private health insurance reclassification of intravitreal (eye) injections from 1 July 2025 to 1 July 2026 and undertake further consultation.
Read MoreMacular Disease Foundation Australia calls on the next Federal Government to bulk-bill sight-saving eye injections for pensioners; with the potential for creating a $140 million cost-saving per year.
Read MoreThe Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) approval of the new eye injection treatment SYFOVRE® (pegcetacoplan) is welcome news, as it will give many people with Geographic Atrophy a treatment option that they’ve never had before to slow the progression of the disease.
Read MoreThe Federal Government has announced that from 1 July 2025, people receiving sight-saving eye (intravitreal) injections to treat macular disease will no longer receive health fund benefits for this treatment if it is performed in private hospitals and day surgeries.
Read MoreNational peak body Macular Disease Foundation Australia (MDFA) has launched Eye Connect
Read MoreNew findings reveal that consuming more than 12g of alcohol per day (less than one large glass of wine or large beer) is linked to a higher risk of developing irreversible vision loss; new nutrition guidelines released to help protect Australians’ eyesight.
Read MoreWelcome to the special My Eyes edition of Vision Voice.
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