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Eliminating Eye Infection With Antibiotics

...rding // to a recent study . Researchers studied a community in Tanzania where the bacterial infection trachoma...d practice aimed at eliminating the infection in a community works. The practice calls for everyone in a community where the infection is endemic to be treated w...

Eliminating Eye Infection With Antibiotics

...rding // to a recent study . Researchers studied a community in Tanzania where the bacterial infection trachoma...d practice aimed at eliminating the infection in a community works. The practice calls for everyone in a community where the infection is endemic to be treated w...

The Effectiveness Of The Flu Vaccine For Kids Questioned

...y, hospital admissions, serious complications, and community transmission of influenza hence they say that further study should be done to study the outcomes of vaccinating children for the flu before making it a health policy ....

Skin infections are becoming drug resistant

...tor as the results showed more people of the black community being affected than white community. Most of the cases were on the skin and soft tissue, however 6% cases were invasive in nature. All the cases had showed marked tendency of not resisting treatment of anti-microbial agents. 23% of the cases till d...

Study shows that interventions from health workers can bring about changes in asthma causes

...s carried on for a period of one year during which community health workers used systematic interventions. Some of these interventions were assessment of the home environment, education imparted to parents, support provided to encourage healthier habit formations, and resources provided to implement the new id...

WHO report asks for improved healthcare for mother and child

...p these children from dying. WHO urges the medical community across the globe to practice a continuous method of care extended to the women from pregnancy to childbirth and continued with the child till he’s about 5 yrs of age. ...

Poll Finds Many Americans Misinformed About Cancer

...ed in cancer centers, medical practices, and other community organizations that serve large numbers of patients with these 'at risk' demographic characteristics,"...

Poll Finds Many Americans Misinformed About Cancer

...ed in cancer centers, medical practices, and other community organizations that serve large numbers of patients with these 'at risk' demographic characteristics,"...

Autism epidemic is a myth- says a new study

... autistic children have led to a fear in the world community that // we may be heading towards an autistic epidemic. However a recent report, which was published in the journal Current Directions in Psychological Science, points out that this is not true. The report points out to certain facts that belie the f...

Start early to develop a healthy mind and body

...ted the Brookline Early Education Program that had community based programs like providing health and educational guidance to the parents, and had included interventions like visiting the homes, organizing parent groups, providing public libraries for toys and books, and encouraging parents to enroll their chi...

New Race –Specific drug

...disease could be prevented in the African-American community by prevention and treatment of hypertension....

Can Ajinomoto cause cancer?

...ects of aspartame is being discussed in scientific community for a long time, regarding its carcinogenic property and the breakdown products from aspartame. Results from all these studies have not proved any harmful effects of aspartame. EFSA has asked his scientific panel members to review the results submitt...

Intense Fight Against Polio In India Gets Results

...nization of the disease, ignorance in the minority community that the drops might cause impotence later on in life and distrust against the government for focusing so much on a single disease - which has been eradicated from much of the globe. And Hapur in Ghaziabad district, adjoining New Delhi, perhaps epit...

HIV Infection Higher In Drug Trafficking Countries

...ive HIV prevention strategies among its drug-using community and has since seen a decline in transmission rates. Tajikistan users with access to needle exchanges had half the prevalence rate of those who did not. Changes will have to come from the authorities, says Beyrer. Methadone – a drug used to treat hero...

Research Fraud By Doctor – Probe Demanded

...rnal. // "The credibility of the medical research community of our country will be questioned unless the Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) or a government-appointed body investigates the entire scientific activity of (Dr. Ram B.) Singh, which might either clear him or support a case of scientific fra...

Patients Suffering From Severe Mental Diseases Are At Risk Of Being Crime Victims

...ng from severe mental illnesses cannot live in the community unless adequately supported by the medical and familial help....

New Bioinformatics Centre to open in Andhra

... "As a Sun centre of excellence, CDFD joins Sun's community of research institutions developing advanced technology in computational biology and bioinformatics in the post-genome age," said Bhaskar Patnaik, managing director of Sun Microsystems India. "Sun technologies will help set up one of the world's la...

Discovery of World’s smallest laser

...generated great excitement in the opto-electronics community because of their potential applications in miniature optical computer circuitry and communicationsdevices, Yang said. Yang and his laboratory colleagues have joined with Richard Saykally, professor of chemistry, of UC Berkeley lab to image single ...

Researchers Feel The Need For Standards Of Practice In Immunoglobulin Therapy

...nd, formal consensus is lacking within the medical community on the appropriate dosing and frequency of IVIG, according to the authors of the article. The infusion therapy nursing specialists who authored the Journal of Infusion Nursing article, titled, "Developing Practice Guidelines for the Administration o...

Scientists Developed Map For Brain Molecular Communities

... developed a computer network model of a molecular community in brain cells of mammals in order to predict the ...s and predict side effects of drugs. Like a social community or a sports team, a molecular community works together to achieve a common goal. Unlike humans who h...

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