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    New Nutrition Guidelines for AMD

    Latest research supports Mediterranean and Asian-style eating plans to reduce risk of AMD

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    Eye health and the bushfires

    Information sheets to help you to take care of your eyes through this bushfire season.

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    Vision Voice Summer 2019 out now

    The latest edition of our community newsletter, Vision Voice summer 2019, is about to hit letterboxes around Australia.

    Researcher Dr Zhichao Wu

    Researcher Dr Zhichao Wu is investigating techniques to better identify who is at high risk of progressing to late stage wet AMD.

    Researcher Dr Audra Shadforth

    Dr Audra Shadforth has been awarded MDFA Research Grant Program funding for an investigatory project looking at AMD from a new angle.

    Prof Alex Brown Dream Project

    Prof Alex Brown’s DREAM Project received a 2019 MDFA Research Grant for his project on diabetes, vision loss and Indigenous Australians.

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    $600,000 to researchers on World Sight Day

    MDFA has awarded a further $600,000 to three leading researchers on World Sight Day 2019.

    Patient voices: Lorin

    Lorin Nicholson talks about his journey with retinitis pigmentosa.

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    Patient voices: Jim

    Hear directly from Jim about his diagnosis of AMD, and the positive changes he’s made to slow vision loss.

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    Implanted AMD ‘drug reservoir’

    A new implant technology that continuously delivers medication into the eyes is safe and effective, a new trial has shown.

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