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“Volunteering got me through lockdown"
Posted: Tuesday 1 June 2021
Since becoming a Skills for Seeing volunteer five years ago, Caroline Noall has provided one-to-one training to more than 46 people with macular disease - teaching them how to make best use of the vision and continue doing the things they love.
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“I’ve learned to be a bit more compassionate with myself”
Posted: Thursday 20 May 2021
Emilee was diagnosed with macular disease at the age of 24. “I didn’t think it really affected me very much at first,” she said.
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New research shows reversing sight loss could be possible
Posted: Tuesday 18 May 2021
New research has shown the ability to reverse sight loss, as light-sensing cells have been successfully transplanted into the retina for the first time.
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What is myopic macular degeneration and what is being done to find a cure?
Posted: Monday 17 May 2021
This month's condition-specific Virtual Clinic will focus on myopic macular degeneration, what we know about why it occurs and how a cure could be found.
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“No advice, help, information or reassurance was given to me.”
Posted: Thursday 6 May 2021
Margaret went to a routine eye test at her local optician six years ago. At the time she had no reason to believe there was anything wrong
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New smart glasses help people with macular disease to read, recognise faces and identify objects
Posted: Wednesday 5 May 2021
Macular Society members are among 122 people from three countries who tested the latest smart glasses from OXSIGHT.
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Diagnosis and difficult conversations
Posted: Wednesday 5 May 2021
Five hundred eyecare professionals joined a webinar organised by the Macular Society and Optical Consumer Complaints Service, hoping to understand how they can better explain macular conditions to their patients.
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Bringing you closer the experts in macular disease
Posted: Wednesday 28 April 2021
Each year, we bring together macular experts to share the latest research updates and advice on living with sight loss with our members at our annual conference.
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New drug for wet AMD to be put in the spotlight
Posted: Monday 26 April 2021
A new drug for age-related macular degeneration (AMD), which could see patients receiving as few as four injections a year, will be put under the spotlight next month as it becomes the focus of the Society’s next Virtual Clinic.
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'The biggest thing for me was knowing I’d never be able to drive'
Posted: Thursday 22 April 2021
After years of going back and forth to the opticians and hospital eye clinic Louise was eventually diagnosed with Stargardt disease at 15 years old.
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‘If we don’t fundraise, we’re never going to get anywhere’
Posted: Tuesday 20 April 2021
As travelling across the world has been out of the question for everyone this year, Julia Mills has found an alternative way to get to her destination of choice.
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Virtual event to explore visual hallucinations in children
Posted: Thursday 8 April 2021
Visual hallucinations in children and young adults with sight loss will be the topic of our next condition-specific Virtual Clinic.
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