The signs of vitamin A deficiency are predominantly ocular. They include night blindness, conjunctival xerosis, Bitot's spots, corneal xerosis and keratomalacia. Lack of vitamin A first causes night blindness or inability to see in dim light.

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Diabetes is a metabolic disorder that reduces a person s immunity. It can lead to heart disease, and it may also affect some organs of the body, such as the eyes. Diabetes is, in fact, the cause of the most common form of blindness, a condition known as...

City of God The Constant Gardener director Fernando Meirelles will be directing an adaptation of a book called Blindness. It's a thriller about a blindness epidemic that forces society to the brink of breakdown.

The apparent success of programmes to combat river blindness is leading to complacency, say researchers in a paper in PLoS Medicine today. They argue that the disease cannot be brought fully under control without research into fundamental questions about how it is affected by interventions.

FEDEX Corp has pledged US$5.5 million to Orbis International, a non-profit organisation for the prevention of blindness worldwide.