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World Service,06 May 1998,13 mins

Using Antibiotics To Cure Trachoma

Health Matters

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Trachoma update and could CD-ROMs help health, also rocking to cure dementia. Antibiotic tablets are being trialled as a cure for trachoma, one of the world's leading causes of blindness. Also a look at how images carried on CD-ROMs are being used to educate medical professionals to indentify some of the world's most important issues. And how rocking is being used to help dementia sufferers.

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