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Healthcare Workers Could Be Africa's Secret Weapon in AIDS War

...nd Health Services in Washington say the NPCs vary widely in their role and numbers. In nine countries of the 47 countries the pair investigated, NPCs equalled or exceeded the numbers of fully trained physicians. The finding is important, as many African countries combatting AIDS are suffering a disastrou...

Muslim Nations Focus on Halal Vaccines

...re all "haram", or forbidden. Although the OIC has widely approved child vaccines as halal and safe, hardline Islamic activists have argued that western-made vaccines may contain alcohol or be contaminated by non-halal sources.According to World Health Organisation (WHO) officials at the conference, doubt...

Post Menopausal Women are Prone to Gum Disease

...oss than those without these oral pathogens. Two widely recognized periodontal pathogens, called P. gingivalis and T. forsythensis, were found to infect 15.1 percent and 37.9 percent of the women, respectively. Two additional oral bacteria suspected to be pathogenic, P. intermedia and C. rectus, were foun...

Indonesia's Acehnese Suffer High Rates of Mental Trauma

...ised individuals, who are often located in remote, widely dispersed villages, is essential for Aceh's future," Good said. GAM and the government were brought to the peace table in the aftermath of the devastating 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, which killed 168,000 people in Aceh on the northern tip of Sumatra i...

Brazil Government In Contention With Merck Over Anti-AIDS Drug

...erck a small royalty. Efavirenz is the drug most widely used by Brazil's anti-AIDS program, which provides free medication for anyone who needs it.Currently 75,000 of the 180,000 Brazilians who receive the free cocktail of anti-AIDS drug use efavirenz. Victims of AIDS in the United States, who are so di...

UN Agency’s Checklist on Health Care Erro

...l workers partly by making alcohol-based hand rubs widely available; · Ensure proper patient identification to guard against one person getting medicine intended for another or newborns being given to the wrong parents; · Ensure operations are performed on the right body parts; · Double-check similar-...

Condom Promotion-Crucial To HIV/AIDS Prevention

... and texture carrying differentprice tags would be widely available in the bar, CITCO managingdirector J.S. ...dia is to be halted, condoms must become much more widely known about, accepted and used. India's National AIDS Control Organization plans to increase the ...

Women More Vulnerable to Multiple Sclerosis, Research Shows

... of the body is disrupted. Multiple sclerosis is widely believed to be an autoimmune disease, a condition in which the immune system attacks components of the body as if they're foreign. In multiple sclerosis, the body mistakenly directs antibodies and white blood cells against proteins in the myelin sh...

Many NYC Pharmacies Fail to Translate Prescription Labels for Patients Who Don't Understand English

...-lingual staff, then label translation software is widely available. This is a simple, feasible, and low-cost initial step to help patients." Of pharmacists surveyed, 77 percent reported that they can print labels in Spanish, and a smaller percent (12 percent) can print in Chinese, Russian or other langua...

Local Councils Should Be Responsible for Tackling Health Inequalities

... and 60s. Although extending these treatments as widely as needed is laudable, having so many people taking drugs can hardly be regarded as a public health achievement, he says. Yet the NHS is proving remarkably good at these approaches. The reason for this, he explains, is because the NHS is a sickness...

Brief Intervention on HIV and Alcohol Risk Encourages Safer Sex

...notes. Thus, a similar brief intervention could be widely disseminated via such clinics, which serve people at highest risk of HIV infection. “This intervention may be particularly useful because it can be delivered by non-professional counsellors with minimal training,” say the authors, noting such coun...

Stillbirth Figures Stand Still

...rrhage or asphyxiation during childbirth is also a widely occurring cause. The non-medical reasons certainly point towards poor nutrition of women especially those from underprivileged nations. Such women carry a double risk of having stillborns. The report stresses the need for better strategies to evalu...

Tai Chi - More Than Magic

...me.” Benefits extend to other areas, as well. A widely read study this year from Emory University in Atlanta found that Tai Chi helped elderly practitioners reduce their risk for potentially lethal falls. Irwin's own work at UCLA found that Tai Chi reduced older people's risk for the immune disorder shin...

Electronic Tagging - for the Elderly Now!

...moving platforms. Electronic monitoring has been widely used in the United States for more than a decade, and now many countries in the rest of the world are introducing schemes for the tagging of certain offenders. South Africa believes it will enable 30,000 prisoners a year to be released from the count...

Scientists Find Clue for the Prevalence of Bladder Cancer More in Men

...complex than was once thought. For years it's been widely thought by doctors and scientists that all male hormones, and only male hormones, work through the androgen receptor. But he felt there was more to the story. If anyone would know, it would be Chang, who in 1988 was the first person to clone the an...

E Coli Outbreak Forces Large-scale Recall of Beef Products

...t tenderizing techniques, because though they "are widely used in the meat processing industry, we felt that they contain some level of risk," Brown said. Health Secretary Dr. Calvin B. Johnson said Pennsylvania health officials were working with the state and federal agriculture departments to identify t...

FDA Announces Audio Broadcasts on Emerging Drug Safety Information

...A's Web site or read about it in print. Timely and widely available broadcasts about previously unknown potential drug risks should help ensure that these products are used safely and effectively." Since the service was launched in February 2007, it has alerted listeners to the potential hazards of skin-n...

Autoimmune Diseases can Be Prevented by Green Tea

...ercent of the elderly in China, where green tea is widely consumed, suffer from the problem, the researchers said. "Since it is an autoimmune disease, Sjogren's syndrome causes the body to attack itself and produce extra antibodies that mistakenly target the salivary and lacrimal glands," Hsu said. Th...

Red Wine Good for Nothing, Say Indian Doctors

Dismissing the widely held theory that red wine is good for health, leading Indian doctors Tuesday said// that no one in the world has proved the positive side of either the red wine or any category of alcohol. Scores of leading doctors assembled in the national capital...

Chondroitin may Not Have Any Beneficial Effect on Arthritis, New Study Says

...ecent years, glucosamine and chondroitin have been widely promoted as a treatment for osteoarthritis.While arthritis means inflammation of the joints, and is the name given to a group of over 200 diseases, osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common type of arthritis. The most commonly affected joints are the kn...

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