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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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    2023 Research Grants Program

    MDFA is Australia’s largest source of research funding in the field of macular disease outside of government

    Excellence in Research Award in honour of Richard Grills (AM)

    Composition and functionality of high-density lipoprotein in age-related macular degeneration and a high-risk disease phenotype

    2023 Research Grant Family Fund recipient

    Redefining macular disease diagnosis to improve access to emerging therapies

    2023 Research Grant Recipient

    Investigating mitochondrial dysfunction in macular degeneration – towards new treatments and biomarkers

    2023 Research Grant Family Fund recipient

    Evaluating the potential of hyperspectral imaging for detecting and monitoring geographic atrophy Accurate monitoring of

    Ita Buttrose calls on Government to do more

    One of Australia’s best known personalities Ita Buttrose has called on State, Territory and Federal Governments to do more for older Australians who are at risk of going blind.

    Saving sight will save billions of dollars

    An investment to save the sight of thousands of vulnerable older Australians will save the Government up two billion dollars.

     “I’ll work until they put me in a pine box”

    Mike can’t retire because he wouldn’t be able to afford the cost of eye treatment that prevents him from going blind.

    “Rural ophthalmologists are overloaded with patients. We need more specialists out here”

    People who live in rural and remote areas face real struggles to commit to start sight-saving eye injections and to stick with the treatment.

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