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Dr Dinesh Kumar and other inventors of a new rapid screening test for glaucoma that could help advance early detection of the disease are planning clinical trials starting sometime this year...

Recognising the limitations of current glaucoma screening techniques, including timeliness and cost effectiveness, researchers have seized on the opportunity to target these shortcomings...

Two of my sisters developed glaucoma and like me, managed their sight with eye drops to lower the pressure. One of my daughters has now also developed the beginning of glaucoma...

With funding from Glaucoma Australia and the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), researchers from Flinders University are conducting a prospective study to validate a Polygenic Risk Score (PRS) for glaucoma.

“I didn’t know anything about glaucoma, or anyone with glaucoma. There was a loneliness and an isolation I felt when I first got diagnosed..."

An innovative test developed by a world-leading research team has the potential to improve the management and early treatment of glaucoma patients and those at risk of glaucoma.

Glaucoma is in my family and so it is vitally important to have regular eye checks and to follow up any vision disturbance, pain, redness or discomfort of the eye immediately.

COVID-19 restrictions and prolonged lockdowns across states and regions have impacted access to eye care across Australia, restricting optometrists from providing routine care...

Health-conscious father-of-two Shannon Davis sadly now understands why glaucoma is commonly referred to as a silent thief of sight...