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Annual conference will focus on hope for the future
Posted: Wednesday 16 June 2021
Registration is now open for our 2021 annual conference, where researchers and consultants will join us to highlight why there is real hope for the future.
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Summer Sideview out now
Posted: Friday 11 June 2021
The next issue of Sideview, the Macular Society’s quarterly members magazine is out now.
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Webinar to focus on punctate inner choroidopathy
Posted: Thursday 3 June 2021
Punctate inner choroidopathy (PIC) will be the subject of the Society’s next condition-specific webinar.
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Support with technology has been a lifeline during lockdown
Posted: Thursday 3 June 2021
When Sheila retired as a training consultant for a software company four years ago, she wanted to spend her spare time volunteering.
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Macular Society Virtual Clinic welcomes world-leading AMD expert
Posted: Wednesday 2 June 2021
We’re excited to announce that Gregory Hageman, a world-leading professor of ophthalmology, will be joining us as a special guest at this month’s Virtual Clinic.
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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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