{"id":1019,"date":"2021-05-20T16:22:38","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T06:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/specialeyes.com.au\/?p=1019"},"modified":"2021-08-06T07:36:44","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T21:36:44","slug":"may-is-macular-degeneration-awareness-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/specialeyes.com.au\/may-is-macular-degeneration-awareness-month\/","title":{"rendered":"May is Macular Degeneration Awareness Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">inFOCUS this month&#8230; an annual awareness campaign to help Australians understand their risk of macular disease. May is Macular Degeneration Awareness Month.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/specialeyes.com.au\/eye-health\/eye-conditions\/\">Macular disease<\/a> covers a range of painless conditions affecting the central retina, known as the macula, which sits at the back of the eye. This disease is unfortunately the leading cause of vision loss and blindness in Australia.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The macula is responsible for detailed central vision used for activities such as reading, driving and recognising faces. It\u2019s also responsible for most of your colour vision and it is only early detection and intervention that will save your sight.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/checkmymacula.com.au\/?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=33442\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">checkmymacula.com.au<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0offer a quick quiz to assess your risk however the best course of action is to maintain regular eye checks and ensure you reach out to us if you notice any changes with your vision, especially when reading or driving.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>inFOCUS this month&#8230; an annual awareness campaign to help Australians understand their risk of macular disease. May is Macular Degeneration [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":1020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/specialeyes.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/specialeyes.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/specialeyes.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/specialeyes.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/specialeyes.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/specialeyes.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/specialeyes.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/specialeyes.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/specialeyes.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/specialeyes.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}