There are multiple barriers to compliance, with one study finding 71 different barriers. These barriers may be divided into regimen factors, i.e., the cost, complexity, availability and side effects...
Whilst on holiday to Cairns in 1995, and trying to play tennis with my children, we noticed that I quite often could not see the ball to hit it back. I then noticed that I also had a problem with steps...
I was around 17 years old when I noticed my vision was getting clouded in the right eye, but this was for only short periods and regularly cleared up, so I didn’t make much of it at the time...
Despite increasingly advanced treatments and early intervention, parents and carers, some of whom have been diagnosed with genetic glaucoma themselves, face significant long-term challenges...
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...
Dr Georgie Hollitt is part of a team of Australian researchers who have identified 107 genes that increase the risk of glaucoma...
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...
“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..."