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Study Takes Aim At Education-based Death Rate Disparities
A study in the December issue of the American Sociological Review has brought new understanding as to why death rates for less educated middle aged adults are much higher than for their more educated peers despite increased awareness and treatments aimed...
Mayo Clinic Develops New Way to Rate Severity of Colitis, a Common Cause of Diarrhea
Mayo Clinic researchers have developed a new way to assess a common cause of chronic diarrhea, microscopic colitis, using the Microscopic Colitis Disease Activity Index. A study describing the index was released today during the American College of Gastroenterology...
United Nations Children Fund Says Regular Hand Washing Could Save the Lives of More Than 150,000 Nigerian Children Annually
As Nigeria joins the world to commemorate this year’s Global Hand washing Day (GHD) on Saturday, the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) says on Friday in Abuja that regular hand washing could save the lives of more than 150,000 children annually...
Study Identifies New Way to Treat Common Hospital-acquired Infection
Researchers at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston have discovered a molecular process by which the body can defend against the effects of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI), pointing...
Limpopo Health And Social Development MEC Dikeledi Magadzi Expected to Lead Campaign to Promote Breastfeeding
Limpopo Health and Social Development MEC Dikeledi Magadzi is expected to lead a campaign to promote breastfeeding as part of World Breastfeeding Week. How People Arrived Here: Limpopo Health and Social Development
Bullets Not the Main Killer in Myanmar’s Conflict Area
Saw Kwe, a medical officer with the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army, pulls out a cardboard box full of Artesunate from among the rolls of gauze and drugs used for clotting war wounds. he 15-year veteran, who has been shot and nearly blown up in past fighting,...
The Battle Against Malaria in Comoros Lies in the Balance
On arrival in Moheli, an island in the Comoros archipelago, you have to prove that you are taking, or have taken, anti-malarial drugs, otherwise you will have to swallow a pill provided by the authorities.
Water Recedes, But Benin’s Health Concerns Mount
As the floodwaters begin to recede in parts of Benin, the new threat is an explosion of infectious diseases, particularly cholera and malaria. The worst flooding in nearly half a century in the country of some 9 million people has cut many communities...
