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Retired couple sitting on a jetty with the sunrise behind them.
Mar 2024
‘Interventional Glaucoma’ and What it Means For These Australian ...

To accommodate an ageing population, glaucoma management is transitioning from reactive treatment regimens to proactive ones. Three key experts detail what this mindset shift entails and how they employ it in practise.

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Award winning journalist and Seven News Melbourne newsreader, Mike Amor.
Mar 2024
Mike Amor Joins Glaucoma Australia in its Fight Against Eye Disease

Award winning journalist and Seven News Melbourne newsreader, Mike Amor has joined Glaucoma Australia as an official Ambassador in the fight against eye disease and just in time for World Glaucoma Week (10-16 March).

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World Glaucoma Week March 10 - 16, 2024
Mar 2024
Glaucoma Australia Urges Greater Adherence to Eye Checks and Treatment

This World Glaucoma Week (10–16 March 2024), Glaucoma Australia is urging all Australians to have their eyes checked, as well as reminding those with a glaucoma diagnosis to adhere to their treatment to slow its progression and save precious sight.

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An image of a clock showing 5 minutes to midnight
Mar 2024
Five Minutes to Midnight: A Disorientating Diagnosis of Glaucoma

Just over a year ago, a glaucoma specialist told Duncan Craib he was “five minutes from midnight”: unless urgent action was taken, he’d likely be blind in two to three months. 

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Bette Smith
Mar 2024
Bette Urges Australians to Know Their Family History

When Bette Smith’s cousin told her they had glaucoma in the family, she did what all Australians should be doing, she got her eyes checked.

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Debra Lillecrapp
Mar 2024
Debra Asks Australians to Look After Their Eyes

Living in York Peninsula community two hour's drive from Adelaide and with no optometrist in her local community, Debra booked an appointment as soon as she could. That’s when she received her life changing diagnosis.

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An African woman having her eyes examined by an optometrist
Feb 2024
African Glaucoma Gene Clue

People of African ancestry are five times as likely as others to develop glaucoma and up to 15 times as likely to be blinded by the condition, but most research has used data from people of European ancestry.

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Close up of a nerve cell
Feb 2024
Research to Save Retinol Ganglion Cells

Researchers from the Indiana University School of Medicine hope to develop new glaucoma therapies by testing human neurons and a regenerative therapy to rescue dying visual neurons. They’ve received a new five year, US$2 million grant from the National Eye Institute for the project.

 

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Elaine watering a plant on her balcony
Feb 2024
Elaine's Story

My mother was diagnosed with glaucoma when she was about seventy, so I was closely monitored. When there were indicators that I could be following the same path, I was referred to a glaucoma specialist.

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