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- What are the different types of diabetic eye disease?
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- A research update on nutrition and AMD: webinar
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- Vision Voice: summer 2021
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- Optimising vision in diabetes: webinar
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- What's the difference between low vision, vision loss and legal blindness?
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- Research update: 514
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- Vision Voice audio: spring 2021
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- Webinar: Understanding Diabetic Eye Disease
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- Stargardt disease fact sheet
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- 10 Years of Research
- Webinar: Detection of neovascular AMD with OCT and OCT-A
- Central serous chorioretinopathy fact sheet
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- Understanding vision loss
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- What to ask your eye health professional: Being treated for diabetic eye disease
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- Understanding My Aged Care
- What is the difference between optometrists, ophthalmologists, and orthoptists?
- Age-related macular degeneration flyer
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- What to ask your eye health professional: at risk of diabetic eye disease
- Understanding the NDIS
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- A lasting legacy: MDFA bequest brochure
- Research issue: 523
- Visions with low vision: webinar
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- Vision Voice newsletter: summer 2020
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- Vision Voice audio: summer 2020
- Research update: 520
- Sugar and diabetes: webinar
- Research update: 519
- Annual report 2020
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- Research update: 518
- Living well with vision loss
- Research update: 517
- Check My Macula: A4 poster 2
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- Finding help with your vision loss
- Research update: 516
- Ask a retinal specialist: webinar
- Research update: 515
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- Caring for someone with a macular disease: webinar
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- Research update: 511
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- Research update: 508
- Age-related macular degeneration: webinar
- Research update: 507
- Maintaining mental wellbeing with vision loss: webinar
- Research update: 506
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- What to ask your eye health professional: at risk of AMD
- Nutrition for age-related macular degeneration
- Research update: 504
- AREDS2 supplements for AMD
- Reducing the risk of diabetic eye disease
- Living with diabetic eye disease
- Navigating your way through NDIS and My Aged Care: webinar
- Arabic: Diabetic eye disease booklet
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- Retinal vein occlusion
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- Staying safe at home with vision loss: webinar
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- Vision Voice Autumn 2020
- Research update: 503
- Seeing faces and vision loss: webinar
- The role of the optometrist in age-related macular degeneration: webinar
- Amsler grid
- Greek: Age-related macular degeneration booklet
- Charles Bonnet syndrome CD
- Caring for the Carer
- Living safely with low vision: webinar
- Vietnamese: Age-related Macular Degeneration
- Research update: 502
- Understanding the New Carer Gateway: webinar
- Research update: Issue 501
- Maximising vision with low vision aids: webinar
- Research update: Issue 500
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- Research update: Issue 499
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- Eating for your eye health: webinar
- Macular hole fact sheet
- Research update: Issue 498
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- Research update: 534
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- COVID-19 fact sheet
- Epiretinal membrane (macular pucker) fact sheet
- Retinal detachment
- Research update: 533
- Receiving treatment AMD resource pack
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- What to ask your eye health professional: being treated for AMD
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- Research update: 531
- Cataracts and age-related macular degeneration fact sheet
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- Macula Menu: Christmas recipes
- Annual Research Update 2019
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- Adult-onset vitelliform macular dystrophy and Best disease
- Research update: Issue 494
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- A better view: National Strategic Action Plan for Macular Disease
- Annual Research Update 2018
- Macula Menu featuring our community
- The Journey to See: A Model for Success
- Macula Menu: Meat free
- Eye health and aged care: for families
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- Vietnamese: Diabetic eye disease booklet
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- Economic impact of DMO: report
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News
- Relief after rebate cut rejected
- "Well done MDFA!"
- It’s a relief
- Macula Matters
- The sight of 47,000 older Australians has been saved
- Rebate cut rejected
- It's good news for people on a pension
- Proposed Medicare rebate cut rejected
- I'm so relieved
- Improving treatment adherence for wet AMD patients
- Geographic atrophy and quality of life
- Providing education to healthcare professionals
- Macular disease research highlights
- 15 years of treatment saved Valerie's sight
- I will lose my sight
- Vision Voice: Read our latest newsletter
- Macula Matters
- New Chair of MDFA Board appointed
- Optometrists needed for trial study
- Update: Potential new treatments for nAMD and DMO
- Research program: AMD and quality of life
- Reticular pseudodrusen in AMD: Update for optometrists
- MDFA advocacy update: Maintaining Australia’s world-leading nAMD outcomes
- Vision Voice summer 2021: Read it today
- Macula Matters
- Macular Disease Research Update: November 2021
- Research study measuring the impact of AMD on quality of life
- Meet the author: Dymphna Stella Rees
- 2021 Research Update: Early-stage treatments
- Macula Matters recent updates
- Potential treatment for atrophic AMD on the horizon
- MDFA launches eye health video series
- Third anti-VEGF agent reimbursed by PBS
- Nutrition and AMD
- Potential new treatment for dry AMD
- Macula Matters
- How does peer support help you?
- Who is the Centre For Eye Health?
- Seeing the unseen: why definition matters
- Vision Voice spring 2021 out now
- MBS eye injection: update
- Don’t defer essential eye appointments during lockdown
- Don't defer essential eye appointments: media release
- Night vision and AMD
- Researcher Prof Bamini Gopinath
- James Muecke MDFA ambassador
- In the lab: Professor Erica Fletcher
- Laura Downie Mad-CCAT
- Studying biomarkers in the blood
- COVID-19 update
- Meet a researcher: Prof Steven Krilis
- Creating a stem cell bank
- Barriers to effective eye care
- Support life-changing research
- From the lab to the clinic: A/Prof Fred Chen
- In the lab with A/Prof Wilson Heriot
- Macula Matters
- Prof Robyn Guymer: Describing AMD
- Prof Damien Harkin in the lab
- Fight Retinal Blindness! Registry
- The Best is yet to come
- Wellbeing and AMD
- Creating the perfect laboratory macula model
- Gene therapy and macular degeneration
- Investigating blood supply and AMD
- Quality of life and AMD
- Investigating macular oedema
- Understanding AMD at a cellular level
- MDFA awards $1 million to eight exciting research projects
- New gene therapy for AMD
- 10 years of MDFA Research Grants
- Improving real world evidence
- Research grant helping AMD prevention
- 'Eye in a dish' gene research
- Inaugural Ita Buttrose Oration
- Ita Buttrose Medicare Cut
- Avoiding a devastating outcome
- May is Macula Month
- Macula Month focus on diabetes
- Vision Voice autumn 2021 out now
- COVID-19 vaccines roll-out
- Smoking and your risk
- MBS Ophthalmology Taskforce Review
- MDFA backs Royal Commission on low vision aids
- Disability care reforms
- Hidden in plain sight
- Clinical audit educative tool
- Exercises to stop you falling
- Debunking the myths about Charles Bonnet syndrome
- Macular research clinical trials
- Which foods reduce the risk of AMD?
- A Christmas filled with music
- Celebrating good vision
- Vision Voice summer 2020
- New roles for MDFA expert advisors
- Australian of the Year urges Aussies to slash sugar to save their sight
- Chris Smith urges 50-somethings to catch signs of AMD early
- New TV commercial targeting at-risk community
- 50-year-olds at risk of vision loss and blindness
- Stars urge Aussies in their 50s to have an eye exam
- Grant Family Fund bequest: Lasting legacy to 'best mates'
- Million-dollar funding for macular disease research on World Sight Day
- Scientists test potential drug developed in Australia
- National Diabetes Week 2020
- Ita's coronavirus plea
- Pre-clinical trial on potential AMD drug
- Ita's plea to older Australians
- Life in lockdown: Our volunteers
- Diet and risk
- Risk of increased blindness in COVID confusion
- Vision Voice Autumn 2020 out now
- COVID-19 announcement
- Eye health and the bushfires
- Vision Voice Summer 2019 out now
- Researcher Dr Zhichao Wu
- Researcher Dr Audra Shadforth
- Prof Alex Brown Dream Project
- $600,000 to researchers on World Sight Day
- Patient voices: Lorin
- Patient voices: Jim
- Implanted AMD 'drug reservoir'
- AMD: Know your family risk
- Through her eyes: A tribute
- Life changing, art changing diagnosis of AMD
- Generational blindness from AMD
- On the frontline with AMD
- The hereditary risk of AMD
- Are you next in line for AMD?
- Vegetables, fruit, fish can help reduce risk of AMD
- Jean Kittson’s family link to vision loss
- Eggs could reduce risk of AMD
- National Strategic Action Plan released
- Facial recognition and AMD
- Patient voices: Elisabeth
- Anti-VEGF treatment not linked to stroke
- New genes linked to AMD
- Cholesterol and AMD
- Statins and diabetic eye disease
- Treatment non-adherence concern
- Retinal implant trial
- New WA Research Centre for Juvenile Macular Disease
- New sight saving resources for residential aged care
- PBS listing a “big win” says MDFA
- MDFA position statement re 2RT laser.
- Depression, suicide and AMD
- Val Nicholson: Prioritising AMD treatment
- Government announces National Action Plan funding
- Allies against vision loss
- Survey reveals alarming results
- New CEO
- Professor Paul Mitchell honoured
- Farewell to Julie Heraghty
- Is the rate of AMD falling?
- 2017 Research Grant awards
- 2017 mEYE World photo competition
- World Sight Day
- Anne Mess has a lot on her plate
- Cheryl O'Reilly speaks about caring for her mom with CBS
- Amanda Little is a business woman, mother and carer
- Nancy Little on maintaining independence with AMD
- Bank for the blind?
- The Two of Us
- Macular disease research symposium
- Carers lose sight of own macular health
- Mel Byrnes: Early action saved his sight
- Cuts to transport subsidy opposed
- Low vision report
- Sight-saving win
- Celebration of 15 years
- mEYE World 2016
- OCT scans
- Ozurdex PBS listing
- National Eye Health Survey
- Jean Kittson on prioritising her eye health
- Erin Philpot was 17 when she was told she'd lose her sight
- “I may not do things the way sighted people do, but I don’t let that stop me."
- Human Services reform
- New research on family carers
- Baby boomers at risk
- NDIS age discrimination
- SA Governor supports MDFA
- Denis Sutton on the call that saved his sight
- Susan's story: Don't just treat your diabetes
- mEYE World 2015
- Data shows better treatment outcomes
- NDIS independent review
- Research grants awarded
- Eylea PBS listing expanded
- SA Governor: Vision Custodian
- Awareness Week success
- Custodian of Vision: WA
- NSW Governor: Vision Custodian
- Vic Governor: Vision Custodian
- Tasmania's Vision Custodian
- Minister's sight-saving decision
- Economic impact of diabetic eye disease
- Private health low vision aids
- mEYE World 2014
- Save sight: World Diabetes Day
- SA sees better future
- PIN only credit cards
- Lucentis recommendation
- PIN-only credit card action
- Ripple Effect of Vision Loss
- SA eye health shortfall
- Awareness week 2014
- What's an Amsler grid?
- Tea with your MP
- Landmark AREDS2 study
- NDIS human rights risk
- Farewell Dr Paul Beaumont
- Cup of tea awareness campaign
- mEYE World photographic competition 2013
- Ambassador's campaign
- Bowls Australia joins sight campaign
- Research Grants 2013
- Make eye checks a priority for diabetics
- Saffron and AMD
- Ita fighting for older Australians
- White paper on improvement treatment and outcomes
- Anger over the changes to NDIS
- Government must rethink NDIS
- Fighting for all macular disease
- Australian of the Year 2013
- Aspirin and wet AMD
- Foundation campaigns for equity
- Eylea and Lucentis switching
- Awareness campaign kicks off
- AMD treatment switching campaign
- mEYE World 2012
- TV campaign
- Global leaders discuss wet AMD
- Switching should be allowed
- Focus on families
- Federal Budget reassuring
- TGA approves Eylea
- Audio description trial
- Judi Dench shares AMD diagnosis
- Postcard campaign success
- CATT study raises questions
- Inaugural research grants awarded
- Eyes on the future
- Hyperbaric oxygen treatment
- Inaugural mEYE World winners
- Launch of Research Grants program
- Low vision aids subsidy needed
- Annastacia's story
- Awareness week 2010
- Know the symptoms
- Medicare benefits for Avastin
- Macular degeneration awareness soars
- Wet AMD campaign success
- OCT funding denied
- Avastin rebate change
- Alcohol and AMD
- Macular Disease Patient Charter
- Vision Van launch
- Audio descriptive in media
- Inaugural Roth Gair Golf Day
- Navigator Library
- Focus on family
- Lucentis PBS listing
- Cigarette warnings welcomed
- Lucentis must be accessible
- Awareness week 2006
- Costs of AMD
- Win for war veterans
Education Sessions
- Q&A: Ask a patient and an optometrist
- Understanding and living optimally with vision loss - for those living with vision loss, their families and friends
- Occupational therapy and low vision: How to live safely with vision loss
- Blind Citizens Australia and MDFA Information Night – AMD
- Know what supports are available to you to live an optimal life with vision loss or blindness
- The role of the optometrist in your eye care journey
- Nutrition and AMD: a research update
- Low vision aids – something for everyone
- Clinical pearls in diabetic retinopathy, from diagnosis to management: a case-based webinar for healthcare professionals
- Age-related macular degeneration: webinar
- Optimising vision in diabetes: webinar
- Age-related macular degeneration: webinar
- AMD: Classification, AREDS, management
- A research update on early detection of macular disease: webinar
- Understanding diabetic eye disease
- Geographic atrophy secondary to AMD
- Estate planning
- Geographic atrophy in dry age-related macular degeneration
- Age-related macular degeneration
General Events
- Macula Month 2022
- MDFA Annual General Meeting
- Macula Month
- Ita Buttrose Oration
- Roth Gair Charity Golf Day
