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The battle against malaria in Africa has stalled. Can research in Mozambique explain why?
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Moisés Mapanga, a burly man of 49, is the bait. At 6 p.m. on a mid-April evening, he climbs into an orange tent outside his one-room house in Matutuíne, a hot, swampy district near Maputo, the cap...
Source: Science of Aging Knowledge Environment - September 8, 2022 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
First Came an Earthquake. Then a Hurricane. Now, Haiti is Bracing for an Outbreak of Disease.
On Aug. 14, a devastating 7.2-magnitude earthquake hit southwestern Haiti, leaving 2,189 people dead, 12,268 injured and at least 332 missing. Days later, Tropical Storm Grace swept over the ravaged landscape, hampering the complicated search and rescue mission. Yet aid groups say this is only the beginning of the crisis.
The island country of nearly 12 million people has faced one disaster after another in the space of a few weeks. In July, President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated amid mounting allegations of corruption. The country has been struggling with poverty, disease and a fractured infrastructure since a cata...
Source: TIME: Health - August 20, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Eloise Barry Tags: Uncategorized Londontime Natural Disasters Source Type: news
First Came an Earthquake. Then a Hurricane. Now, Haiti is Bracing for an Outbreak of Disease
On Aug. 14, a devastating 7.2-magnitude earthquake hit southwestern Haiti, leaving 2,189 people dead, 12,268 injured and at least 332 missing. Days later, Tropical Storm Grace swept over the ravaged landscape, hampering the complicated search and rescue mission. Yet aid groups say this is only the beginning of the crisis.
The island country of nearly 12 million people has faced one disaster after another in the space of a few weeks. In July, President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated amid mounting allegations of corruption. The country has been struggling with poverty, disease and a fractured infrastructure since a cata...
Source: TIME: Health - August 20, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Eloise Barry Tags: Uncategorized Londontime Natural Disasters Source Type: news
Severe COVID-19 in Uganda across Two Epidemic Phases: A Prospective Cohort Study
Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2021 Aug 9:tpmd210551. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.21-0551. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTAmong a prospective cohort of children and adults admitted to a national COVID-19 treatment unit in Uganda from March to December 2020, we characterized the epidemiology of and risk factors for severe illness. Across two epidemic phases differentiated by varying levels of community transmission, the proportion of patients admitted with WHO-defined severe COVID-19 ranged from 5% (7/146; 95% CI: 2-10) to 33% (41/124; 95% CI: 25-42); 21% (26/124; 95% CI: 14-29%) of patients admitted during the peak phase received oxygen therapy...
Source: The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene - August 9, 2021 Category: Tropical Medicine Authors: Barnabas Bakamutumaho Matthew J Cummings Nicholas Owor John Kayiwa Joyce Namulondo Timothy Byaruhanga Moses Muwanga Christopher Nsereko Emmanuel Rwamutwe Roselyn Mutonyi Josephine Achan Lucy Wanyenze Alice Ndazarwe Ruth Nakanjako Richard Natuhwera Annet N Source Type: research
Vaccines, Antibodies and Drug Libraries. The Possible COVID-19 Treatments Researchers Are Excited About
In early April, about four months after a new, highly infectious coronavirus was first identified in China, an international group of scientists reported encouraging results from a study of an experimental drug for treating the viral disease known as COVID-19.
It was a small study, reported in the New England Journal of Medicine, but showed that remdesivir, an unapproved drug that was originally developed to fight Ebola, helped 68% of patients with severe breathing problems due to COVID-19 to improve; 60% of those who relied on a ventilator to breathe and took the drug were able to wean themselves off the machines after 18...
Source: TIME: Health - April 14, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Source Type: news
All Your Coronavirus Questions, Answered
One of the worst symptoms of any plague is uncertainty—who it will strike, when it will end, why it began. Merely understanding a pandemic does not stop it, but an informed public can help curb its impact and slow its spread. It can also provide a certain ease of mind in a decidedly uneasy time. Here are some of the most frequently asked questions about the COVID-19 pandemic from TIME’s readers, along with the best and most current answers science can provide.
A note about our sourcing: While there are many, many studies underway investigating COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-19, the novel coronavirus that causes the illn...
Source: TIME: Health - April 14, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: TIME Staff Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Explainer Source Type: news
Philanthropists Join Forces to Fund Africa ’s Cash-Strapped Health Sector
Tristate Heart and Vascular Centre in Nigeria. Credit: Tristate Heart and Vascular CentreBy Pavithra Rao, Africa Renewal*NEW YORK, Sep 28 2017 (IPS)In the 2017 World Happiness Report by Gallup, African countries score poorly. Of the 150 countries on the list, the Central African Republic, Tanzania and Burundi rank as the unhappiest countries in the world. Some of the factors driving unhappiness are the poor state of the continent’s health care systems, the persistence of HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis, and the growth of lifestyle diseases such as hypertension, heart disease and diabetes.Few African countries make sig...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - September 28, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Pavithra Rao Tags: Development & Aid Featured Global Headlines Health TerraViva United Nations Source Type: news
Doctors Do Know Best. Exhibit A: The Charlie Gard Case.
By SAURABH JHA, MD
For American conservatives, Britain’s NHS is an antiquated Orwellian dystopia. For Brits, even those who don’t love the NHS, American conservatives are better suited to spaghetti westerns, such as Fistful of Dollars, than reality.
The twain is unlikely to meet after the recent press surrounding Charlie Gard the infant, now deceased, with a rare, fatal mitochondrial disorder in which mitochondrial DNA is depleted – mitochondrial depletion disorder (MDD). In this condition, the cells lose their power supply and tissues, notably in the brain, die progressively and rapidly.
The courts forbade Charlie...
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 31, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: at RogueRad Tags: OP-ED Patients Source Type: blogs
Why Science is Mistrusted
By, SAURABH JHA MD
Recently, the Harvard Chan School of Public Health, in their press release, reported about the effect of surgical checklists in South Carolina. The release was titled, “South Carolina hospitals see major drop in post-surgical deaths with nation’s first proven statewide Surgical Safety Checklist Program.”
The Health News Review, for which I review, grades coverage of research in the media. Based on their objective criteria, the Harvard press release would not score highly.
The title exudes certainty – “nation’s first proven.” The study, not being a randomized controlled trial (RCT), though s...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 22, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: at RogueRad Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Causes of hospital admission among people living with HIV worldwide: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Publication date: Available online 11 August 2015 Source:The Lancet HIV Author(s): Nathan Ford, Zara Shubber, Graeme Meintjes, Beatriz Grinsztejn, Serge Eholie, Edward J Mills, Mary-Ann Davies, Marco Vitoria, Martina Penazzato, Sabin Nsanzimana, Lisa Frigati, Daniel O'Brien, Tom Ellman, Olawale Ajose, Alexandra Calmy, Meg Doherty Background Morbidity associated with HIV infection is poorly characterised, so we aimed to investigate the contribution of different comorbidities to hospital admission and in-hospital mortality in adults and children living with HIV worldwide. Methods Using a broad search strat...
Source: The Lancet HIV - August 12, 2015 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: research
