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Making your home accessible
Posted: Friday 4 November 2016
The prospect of losing your sight is difficult to accept.
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Eastenders storyline highlights the issue of sight loss
Posted: Tuesday 1 November 2016
BBC soap opera Eastenders has helped to highlight the issue of living with sight loss after character Dot Cotton revealed she was losing her vision.
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Blind brothers raise funds for research through clothing brand
Posted: Friday 28 October 2016
Two brothers, who were diagnosed with Stargardt's at a young age, have found a unique way of raising funds for medical research.
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Art project explores Manchester professor's work on artificial sight
Posted: Friday 28 October 2016
A unique art project, which tells the story of the first patient to receive the Argus® II 'bionic eye' at Manchester Royal Eye Hospital, has been launched at Manchester Science Festival.
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Bowls boosts Madeline's confidence
Posted: Tuesday 25 October 2016
At the age of 25, Madeline Roberts thought she was suffering from a migraine when she noticed a black spot in the centre of her vision one morning.But her sight quickly deteriorated in a matter of weeks.She said: “I thought it was a migraine, but over a …
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World Sight Day - Stronger together
Posted: Wednesday 12 October 2016
The International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) is urging everyone in the eye care industry to pull together to support World Sight Day.
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Report passed to MPs
Posted: Friday 7 October 2016
The Macular Society’s fight for more research funding was taken to the politicians over the autumn.
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National award winners
Posted: Friday 7 October 2016
Our Awards for Excellence 2016 gave us the chance to celebrate the excellent and inspirational work done to provide services and care for people with macular disease.
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Radiotherapy trial for wet AMD
Posted: Thursday 6 October 2016
Most people with wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD) are all too familiar with the treatment regimen of repeated injections of drugs into their eye.
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Society urgently calls for more funding into macular research
Posted: Friday 23 September 2016
The Macular Society has launched a landmark report exposing the lack of funding for biomedical research into age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the leading cause of sight loss in the UK.The report, which has been funded by the Clothworkers’ Foundati…
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New option for macular oedema patients
Posted: Wednesday 31 August 2016
Pharmaceutical company Bayer’s drug Eylea will be offered as a starting point for patients with certain forms of macular oedema.The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has released a draft recommendation of the anti-VEGF drug
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New conference promotes importance of the patient experience
Posted: Wednesday 24 August 2016
Eye care professionals are being invited to a Macular Society conference in November.
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