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Macular Week to highlight dangers of smoking
Latest news, posted 8 March 2017
This year's Macular Week will raise awareness of the impact of smoking on eye health.
New self-advocacy pilot launches to help eye patients prevent sight loss
Latest news, posted 13 March 2017
Patients are being helped to take care of their sight under a new pilot scheme to end cancelled, delayed or missed eye clinic appointments.RNIB (Royal National Institute of Blind People) is trialling a patient self-advocacy project in partnership with th…
Bogus stem cell trial sparks warning
Latest news, posted 16 March 2017
The Macular Society is warning people not to be deceived by the health claims made by bogus stem cell clinics.
Assessing stress in AMD patients
Latest news, posted 17 March 2017
Measuring stress levels using a simple rating scale could be a useful way of assessing the connection between stress and progressive vision loss from age-related macular degeneration (AMD).New research, published in Optometry and Vision Science
Breast cancer drug may help treat AMD
Latest news, posted 21 March 2017
New research has revealed that a drug commonly used for cancer treatment could treat degenerative retinal disease, including age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and retinitis pigmentosaResearchers from the National Eye Institute in the US monitored li…
British man has operation to deliver modified DNA to his eyes
Latest news, posted 24 March 2017
A British man with retinitis pigmentosa has had the world’s first operation to deliver new DNA to his eyes and restore his sight.Around 15,000 people in Britain have retinitis pigmentosa
Parliament discusses eye health
Latest news, posted 31 March 2017
Eye health was discussed in parliament, at the end of March, for the first time in nearly seven years.
No need to fear injections
Latest news, posted 6 April 2017
When Hazel Higgerson was told she would need an injection to treat her wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD) she was petrified.But her anxieties soon eased after her first injection when she realised it was not as scary as it had first seemed.
Counselling service helps Jean tell her story
Latest news, posted 11 April 2017
Jean Bowskill has experienced first hand how the Macular Society’s telephone counselling service can have a positive impact following a diagnosis of macular disease.Jean worked as a nurse for the Foreign Office for 30 years, moving all over the world.
Heart failure drug could treat type of macular degeneration
Latest news, posted 19 April 2017
A drug used to treat heart failure is at the centre of a £1 million study in Southampton to establish whether it can save the sight of patients with a type of macular degeneration.Central serous chorio-retinopathy (CSCR) is a type of macular degeneration…