Members receive a quarterly magazine &/or CD - "Side View" and an annual Scientific review - "Digest".  We also publish many other information leaflets and a 30 minute DVD on living with Macular Degeneration, which are available all free of charge to members or to none members for a small charge.

Conference Recordings - Buy Now - 01264 350551

Each year the Society organises a number of conferences for people affected by all forms of macular disease.  Guest speakers, experts in their field,  are invited to give presentations and then take questions from the floor.  All of our conferences are recordeded and are available to buy on audio CDs.  For more information, call the office on 01264 350551.
Download mp3 recordings from here.

Side View Magazine & Digest Journal

Side View is published quarterly in large, clear print and also recorded onto CDs which can be listened to with a normal CD player or hi-fi.   Members receive the high-quality magazines and CDs through the post and they can be downloaded from this website (as pdf files and MP3 files).
Download previous issues of Side View from here.

Digest is published annually.  It provides a scientific and more medical round up of research and developments in the world of macular disease - much of which is funded by the Society.
Download previous issues of Digest from here.

An index of articles covered is an invaluable aid to finding extremely useful information and it can be downloaded from the website.
Side View & Digest Index: By Subject   or   By Author

Your Photos And Side View

We’re always happy to receive photographs for Side View, especially for the Group News section. Here are some hints and tips which may help you (and us!):

• Have a think about composition before you take a picture. Colour magazines are a good
• source of ideas and show how the professionals do it
• Try to keep your camera as still as possible until the flash has gone off
• Photos of small groups of people – up to four – tend to be better than those of larger groups as you can identify the people in the picture. Try to keep people close together (in several short rows instead of one long line)
• Don’t worry about ‘red eye’ – we can deal with this at post production stage
• The more you zoom in, the greater the risk of ‘camera shake’
• Try to ensure that the pictures you send us are as high a resolution as possible
• The flash facility on most pocket digital cameras is only effective over a very short distance and will not light up large areas
• Pictures sent in by email are preferable to prints and slides (prints from ink jet printers are not suitable as the dots conflict with final printing)
• If you can send two or three versions of the picture (e.g. ‘landscape’ and ‘portrait’) we can select the one best suited for publication

If in doubt, do please get in touch.
Penny Poole, Editor
The Macular Disease Society
Email: info@maculardisease.org

High resolution setting used on camera results in print quality photo. Low-resolution file. Would need to be reduced to an unusable size to print.

Advertising

All publications can be downloaded from the website and the vast majority can also be listened to as MP3 files. For advertising opportunities in these publications please contact our publishers Indigo on 01892 610 711 or indigo@indigocreativemarketing.com .