International Community for the Relief of Suffering and Starvation
Poverty reduction Training health workers in desert areas, trachoma blindness control, diarrhoea control, tribal community ...
Self-experimentation in medicine
... injected trachoma virus into the conjunctival sac of his eye and rapidly developed trachoma. He did not begin treatment of the ...
Sex differences in human physiology
... females are less likely to get timely treatments for conditions that lead to blindness such as cataracts and trachoma. Females ...
Evelyn Butler Tilden
Tilden worked with Noguchi on trachoma, finding that Bacterium granulosis was still a potent infector after a year or more of ...
Sara Josephine Baker
This system worked so well that head lice and the eye infection trachoma, diseases once rampant in schools, became almost non- ...
Randolph Whitfield Jr.
... he trained paramedics and clinical officers to combat eye diseases such as glaucoma and trachoma. He is the son of Randolph and ...
Patrick Macgregor
Macgregor wrote in 1811 that 'Egyptian Ophthalmia' (Trachoma) in the army had: 'at different periods materially interfered with ... The problem was exacerbated by lack of understanding of the nature of Trachoma, its causes and what could be done to combat the ...
Ballishiil
"Epidemiology of trachoma and its implications for implementing the "SAFE" strategy in Somali Region, Ethiopia: results of 14 ...
Buttonhook
... eyelids inside out to look for signs of trachoma.[better source needed] With handles of horn and wood With handles of silver ...
Anne Sullivan
At the age of five, Sullivan contracted trachoma, an eye disease, which left her partially blind and without reading or writing ... When she was five years old, Sullivan contracted the bacterial eye disease trachoma, which caused many painful infections and ...
Helen Keller International
Its Eye Health programs address the major causes of blindness in the world, including cataract, trachoma and onchocerciasis, ...
Contemporary Native American issues in the United States
Boarding schools were often packed with children to gain more grant money, and became centers for diseases such as trachoma and ...
Jean Marie Charles Abadie
Abadie was involved in developing treatments for glaucoma and trachoma, and discovered a diagnostic sign for exophthalmic ...
Global health
They are variously caused by bacteria (Trachoma, Leprosy), viruses (Dengue, Rabies), protozoa (Human African trypanosomiasis, ...
Chlamydia
Kalumburu, Western Australia
This community has been extensively studied and is the subject of publications in regards to Aboriginal health (e.g. trachoma ...
Operation Eyesight Universal
The emphasis on cataracts had ignored other eye diseases, such as glaucoma, corneal trauma, trachoma and others, which were ...
Koh Yasuda
Statistics of eye disease in leprosy patients, the eyesight of leprosy patients and the effect of trachoma, Reported at 1933 ...
Stanislaus von Prowazek
... the agent that is the cause of trachoma. In 1906 he succeeded his late friend, Fritz Schaudinn, as director of the zoological ...
Joy Buolamwini
In 2011, Buolamwini worked with the trachoma program at the Carter Center to develop an Android-based assessment system for use ...
Vincenz Fukala
Fukala traveled to Egypt in 1872 to study trachoma, and to the United States in 1891 and 1892 to study scrofulous eye disease. ... trachoma, or shallow eye sockets following enucleation. In the treatment of glaucoma, he recommended that when one eye becomes ...
Dick Roughsey
On one of these holidays he caught the eye disease trachoma, which affected his vision and caused problems for him in later ...
Kowmung River
... likely a term for the condition trachoma. This is possibly because a plant, Centipeda cunninghamii, used by the local people to ...
Susan La Flesche Picotte
... and trachoma. Her first office, which measured 12 by 16 feet, doubled as a community meeting place. For several years, she ...
Ellis Island Immigrant Hospital
Physicians treated a wide range of disease, from measles, tuberculosis, trachoma, scarlet fever, Favus, and diphtheria, to ...
Osteo-odonto-keratoprosthesis
An operation to graft the OOKP is undertaken in severe pemphigoid, chemical burns, Stevens-Johnson syndrome, trachoma, Lyell ...
Ellis Island (novel)
Bridget too is allowed in, but Georgiana is refused entry when she is diagnosed with trachoma an eye disease that can lead to ...
United States Public Health Service
McMullen, of the Public Health Service Is Organizing ahe War against Trachoma in the Appalachians". "The World's Work: A ...
Child mortality in Ghana
... trachoma, malaria, and schistosomiasis. Others are guinea worm or dracunculiasis, various kinds of dysentery, river blindness ...
Theodore John Dimitry Jr.
Eventually, he taught at Loyola University and began to write papers on the subjects of trachoma, cataract, glaucoma, ... year his accumulated published research included work on cataract extraction and tarsal massage for patients suffering trachoma ...