Fighting blindness may prevent deaths in Ethiopia
Tuesday, September 1, 2009 - 15:21
in Health & Medicine
CHICAGO (AP) -- 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 Association suggests an unintended benefit from efforts to wipe out trachoma, the world's leading preventable cause of blindness....