Baxter’s Blog

Below is my checklist when visiting rural or isolated eye clinics. This is not a list for the O.R. but rather for outreach activities when

This is the final excerpts of John Cheatham’s booklet Reaching The Blind Poor. The subject of the cost of surgery to the poor is highly

I wanted to continue my review of Dr. John Cheatham’s booklet Reaching The Blind Poor. John died in 2009 and his obituary ( “A Life

I recently wrote this up for the African Vision website and thought I would share it with my Global Alliance colleagues. I have never seen

I have spoken about this previously but I continue to see patients in Belize and elsewhere in the developing world who have been hurt by

Over the next several blogs, I would like to review/summarize the booklet produced by John Cheatham, MD Reaching The Blind Poor about ten years ago.

In the next several blogs I would like to review and summarize: Epidemiology Of Eye Disease 3rd edition by Gordon Johnson, Darwin Minassian, Robert Weale,

Dr. Michael and Jessica Feilmeier from the Univ. of Nebraska, Global Blindness Prevention Division (Opening Eyes Curing Blindness) have established a web site that will

Last year the IAPB and WHO released the latest figures for world blindness. The good news is the world blindness numbers have turned downward. There

This is my guide to the treatment of severe corneal fungal ulcers in low-income and middle-income countries. As we all know, fungal ulcers are more

Glaucoma is the second leading cause of blindness worldwide, cataracts being number one.  Unfortunately, glaucoma is often poorly diagnosed and managed.  With the next several