Normally, when we think of blindness, we tend to think of cataracts, glaucoma, or retinal diseases. There is another one, less spoken of but just as disabling, that starts with something as harmless ...

Continuous mass distribution of azithromycin in northern Ethiopia, where the childhood eye infection trachoma is a major cause of blindness, is effective in preventing recurrence of trachoma but does ...

The pain is so intense that people don’t dare blink. To do so could mean scraping away what little sight they have left. Instead, they resort to tying scarves around their heads in hopes of keeping ...

An antibiotic widely used in Africa to treat eyesight-robbing infections seems to help prevent Ethiopian children from dying of other diseases. A study in Wednesday's Journal of the American Medical ...

Trachoma remains entrenched among outback Indigenous Australian communities more than 30 years after a national program was launched to eradicate the disease, a new survey shows. Professor Hugh Taylor ...

image: Continuous mass distribution of azithromycin in northern Ethiopia, where the childhood eye infection trachoma is a major cause of blindness, is effective in preventing recurrence of trachoma ...