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Category: Published Articles

12 Mar
2017

New campaign aims to unearth 150,000 Aussies unknowingly living with sight-stealing disease

by Vision Initiative

MEDIA RELEASE. Despite being the world's leading cause of irreversible blindness, only half of Aussies know about glaucoma. 

Posted in Published ArticlesTagged Glaucoma Australia Novartis
12 Mar
2017

New campaign aims to unearth 150,000 Aussies unknowingly living with sight-stealing disease

by Vision Initiative

MEDIA RELEASE. Despite being the world's leading cause of irreversible blindness, only half of Aussies know about glaucoma. 

Posted in Published ArticlesTagged Glaucoma Australia Novartis
21 Feb
2017

A day in the life with Stargardt’s Disease

by Vision Initiative

BLOG. Living with Stargardt’s Disease for the past 10 years I have learnt a lot. You have to learn to constantly adapt to your surroundings, see things in a unique way and learn to read small print with technology that you could once read with the naked eye.

Posted in Published ArticlesTagged eye health vision loss
21 Feb
2017

A day in the life with Stargardt’s Disease

by Vision Initiative

BLOG. Living with Stargardt’s Disease for the past 10 years I have learnt a lot. You have to learn to constantly adapt to your surroundings, see things in a unique way and learn to read small print with technology that you could once read with the naked eye.

Posted in Published ArticlesTagged eye health vision loss
06 May
2013

Q&A with Dr Penny Allen

by Vision Initiative

In the second interview of our Q&A series, Vision 2020 Australia talks to Dr. Penny Allen about the amazing Bionic Eye Project currently running in pilot phase.

Posted in Published ArticlesTagged Bionic Eye Project Dr Penny Allen eye research Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital (RVEEH)
06 May
2013

Q&A with Dr Penny Allen

by Vision Initiative

In the second interview of our Q&A series, Vision 2020 Australia talks to Dr. Penny Allen about the amazing Bionic Eye Project currently running in pilot phase.

Posted in Published ArticlesTagged Bionic Eye Project Dr Penny Allen eye research Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital (RVEEH)
06 May
2013

A day in the life …with keratoconus

by Vision Initiative

Belinda Cerritelli blogs about living with keratoconus.

Posted in Published ArticlesTagged eye health Keratoconus
06 May
2013

A day in the life …with keratoconus

by Vision Initiative

Belinda Cerritelli blogs about living with keratoconus.

Posted in Published ArticlesTagged eye health Keratoconus
03 May
2013

Q&A with Professor Hugh Taylor

by Vision Initiative

In the first of a number of interviews with influential members of the eye health community, Vision 2020 Australia talks to Professor Hugh Taylor AC about closing the gap for vision in Indigenous Australia.

Posted in Published ArticlesTagged closing the gap eye health Professor Hugh Taylor AC trachoma
03 May
2013

Q&A with Professor Hugh Taylor

by Vision Initiative

In the first of a number of interviews with influential members of the eye health community, Vision 2020 Australia talks to Professor Hugh Taylor AC about closing the gap for vision in Indigenous Australia.

Posted in Published ArticlesTagged closing the gap eye health Professor Hugh Taylor AC trachoma

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