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Latest News

06 Apr 2020
Let's Beat This Together
COVID-19: Let Us Beat This Together  CEO's updateMedia releaseToolkitIn the last few weeks, the world has changed rapid...
16 Mar 2020
Vision Voice Autumn 2020
The Autumn 2020 edition of Vision Voice includes an update on the MBS review and an update on our upcoming Macula Month...
10 Oct 2019
MDFA awards $600,000 to researchers on World Sight Day
MDFA has awarded a further $600,000 to three leading researchers in a prestigious event held at Admiralty House, the Go...
09 Oct 2019
Macular Disease Foundation Australia awards $600,000 to researche...
MDFA has awarded a further $600,000 to three leading researchers in a prestigious event held at Admiralty House, the Go...
15 Jul 2019
National Diabetes Week 2019
It is National Diabetes Week and Macular Disease Foundation Australia is warning that everyone with diabetes is at risk...
06 May 2019
See My World podcast: Jean's Genes
For Jean Kittson, one of Australia’s most loved performers, the familial risks associated with age-related macular dege...
05 May 2019
Family connections - are you next in line for AMD?
More than 60 per cent of Australians are unaware of the strong familial risks associated with Australia’s leading cause...
01 May 2019
May is Macula Month
Macular disease is the leading cause of blindness and severe vision loss in Australia and Macular Disease Foundation Au...
28 Mar 2019
National Strategic Action Plan for Macular Disease
The National Strategic Action Plan for Macular Disease – outlining a national, coordinated response to macular disease...
26 Mar 2019
Vision Voice Autumn 2019
The Autumn 2019 issue of Vision Voice is out now. Our lead story discusses the Strategic National Action Plan for Macul...
08 Nov 2018
Collaborating with UTS to support the education of future Orthopt...
Macular Disease Foundation Australia (MDFA) was delighted to be recognised for its contribution to the education of Uni...
06 Nov 2018
Donations crucial for research funds
Professor Erica Fletcher has no doubt that without funds raised by the Macular Disease Foundation Australia, crucial si...
29 Oct 2018
New WA Research Centre for Juvenile Macular Disease
MDFA Research Grant recipient Dr Fred Chen from Lions Eye Institute (LEI), will head a new Centre of Research Excellenc...
25 Oct 2018
The Macular Degeneration Clinical Care Audit Tool (MaD-CCAT)
Clinical audit is a key component of evidence-based practice in all fields of healthcare. The aim of a clinical audit i...
24 Oct 2018
PBS listing a “big win” for thousands of macular disease patients...
Allowing an additional 4,500 patients to access subsidised medicine to treat macular disease, with a change to the Phar...
26 Sep 2018
New laser treatment for AMD ‘exciting’, but more research needed:...
An important new study on the use of the 2RT laser in treating earlier stages of age-related macular degeneration (AMD)...
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About Macular Degeneration

Macular degeneration is the leading cause of legal blindness in Australia. It is possible to reduce the risks.
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Diabetic retinopathy is the leading cause of preventable blindness in working age people in Australia.
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