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I began volunteering in 2019 because of my keen interest in engaging with the community and sharing my knowledge of eye health and glaucoma.

My reading is now very slow but I have managed to read some great literature, so one accepts and moves on. I have two daughters and both get their eyes checked regularly...

I enjoy getting the Glaucoma Newsletter in the mail, and I regularly give a donation, as it is helping myself and others with glaucoma...

A new genetic test, performed on a blood or saliva sample, has the ability to identify 15 times more people at high risk of glaucoma than an existing genetic test...

The TArgeting Metabolic INsufficiency in Glaucoma with nicotinamide (TAMING) trial is a world-first randomised-controlled clinical trial to be conducted in partnership with Glaucoma Australia and the Centre for Eye Research Australia...

While it is incurable, glaucoma is eminently treatable. Its progressive damage to the vision can be slowed to a crawl or stopped altogether by adequate treatment...

I was diagnosed with glaucoma in my left eye in 1994, shortly after I had arrived in Australia from South Africa...

My grandmother lived the last years of her life blind, and my doctor said it was probably glaucoma, as it was not known at that time...

Applications for the annual Glaucoma Australia ‘Quinlivan’ Research Grants are now open