I went to the library today and on my way out I picked up the local newspaper The Portland Tribune. The front page news was about Vitamin D and its apparent link to numerous health conditions. I wrote about Vitamin D before, and how people with dark skin should take a daily [...]

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We always talk about how big are the challenges for poor nations like Ethiopia and how we can help people living there, since the problems they have to overcome are so huge. From health to food, water to schools, where do we begin? Is sending money the solution? Sometimes the best solutions to big problems [...]

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Again I’m going to talk about a preventable and treatable disease that sadly is widespread in Ethiopia: Trachoma. Ethiopia has the highest index of blindness in the world, being trachoma responsible for a third of the cases. The word "trachoma", derived from ancient Greek, means “rough eye”, and [...]

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Who could have thought that a pair of shoes could be so important for preventing a terrible disease? While most of us consider shoes to be a basic element in our wardrobe and sometimes a fashion statement, for many people can be the difference between life and death. [...]

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