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Funding Cutting-Edge Research
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The Glaucoma Foundation is dedicated to developing a cure for glaucoma through innovative research, collaboration and education. Our goal is to eradicate blindness caused by glaucoma.

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About Glaucoma

Educate yourself on the eye and how it works, diagnosing glaucoma, exfoliation syndrome, and glaucoma treatments.

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Living with Glaucoma

People deal differently with their glaucoma diagnosis and the reality of living with a chronic disease.
Read their stories.

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Research

The Glaucoma Foundation has been funding groundbreaking glaucoma research for over 30 years.

I am truly thankful to TGF for offering such incredible patient education in the form of resources and webinars with real patients who are going through similar struggles. As with any chronic disease, we can feel very alone as patients and one of the biggest challenges is finding a network where we are supported and understood.

– Hillary G., Glaucoma Patient

My eye doctor recently took images of my eye using different devices.  What do they show?

Clinicians have a range of tools to help diagnose glaucoma and measure its progression. Imaging devices are an important part of the toolbox. You probably had an OCT (optical coherence tomography) test, which allows us to measure the thickness of the different layers of the retina and optic nerve. Just as a sonogram uses sound waves to create three-dimensional pictures of soft tissues inside your body, OCT uses specific wavelengths of light that are projected into the eye.

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Since it’s founding in 1984, The Glaucoma Foundation has never wavered from its principle mission: to fund cutting edge glaucoma research and to educate the public about glaucoma, its diagnosis, and its treatment. The support of individuals like you has provided us with the resources to deliver on this mission.

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