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Egypt’s Poor Easy Victims of Quack Medicine
Many pharmacies and herbalists in Egypt prescribe their own 'wasfa' (secret drug or herbal elixir). Credit: Cam McGrath/IPSBy Cam McGrathCAIRO, Aug 10 2014 (IPS) Magda Ibrahim first learnt that she had endometrial cancer when she went to a clinic to diagnose recurring bladder pain and an abnormal menstrual discharge. Unable to afford the recommended hospital treatment, the uninsured 53-year-old widow turned to what she hoped would be a quicker and cheaper therapy.
A local Muslim sheikh claimed religious incantations, and a suitable donation to his pocket, could cure the cancer. But when her symptoms persisted, Ibrahim cons...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - August 10, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Cam McGrath Tags: Civil Society Education Featured Headlines Health Human Rights Middle East & North Africa Poverty & MDGs Projects Women's Health AIDS avian flu blood dialysis clinics Corruption Doctors Egypt Health care Hepatitis C h Source Type: news
Reflections on New York City’s 1947 Smallpox Vaccination Program and Its 1976 Swine Influenza Immunization Program
This article examines in detail the epidemiology of this outbreak and the measures employed to contain it. In 1976, a swine influenza strain was isolated among a few recruits at a US Army training camp at Fort Dix, New Jersey. It was concluded at the time that this virus possibly represented a re-appearance of the 1918 influenza pandemic influenza strain. As a result, a mass national immunization program was launched by the federal government. From its inception, the program encountered a myriad of challenges ranging from doubts that it was even necessary to the development of Guillain-Barré paralysis among some vaccine r...
Source: Journal of Community Health - April 7, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: research
Sleepy teen finds relief in narcolepsy diagnosis
For as long as Maeve Sheehy can remember, she’s had short spells of feeling like she was about to fall over.
“It wasn’t like feeling faint, it was more like my knees would buckle underneath me,” says Maeve, now 16. “I would instinctually try to keep from falling by bracing myself.”
Sometimes the bracing didn’t work and Maeve would topple over. If she was with friends, she’d pretend she had tripped, to cover it up. But she secretly worried something was wrong with her. When she tried to explain the falling feeling to her parents and doctors, she was told she was probably dehydrated.
More mysterious symptoms
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Source: Thrive, Children's Hospital Boston - May 2, 2017 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Ellen Greenlaw Tags: Our Patients’ Stories Center for Pediatric Sleep Disorders Dr. Eric Zhou Dr. Kiran Maski Narcolepsy Source Type: news
Rare Canine Flu Outbreak Hits Chicago
An unusual outbreak of canine flu around the Chicago area has killed five dogs and led to more than 1,000 cases, according to the Cook County Department of Animal and Rabies Control.
The symptoms of canine infectious respiratory disease include lethargic behavior, lax appetite, a lingering cough and a fever, the department notes, with more severe cases showing up in dogs less than a year old and older than seven. Until the outbreak subsides, which the department says may not occur for several weeks, dog owners have been warned to avoid pet-friendly areas like parks, as well as group training and other instances where pups ...
Source: TIME: Top Science and Health Stories - April 7, 2015 Category: Science Authors: Nolan Feeney Tags: Uncategorized animals canine flu chicago Source Type: news
Scientists divided over device that 'remotely detects hepatitis C'
Developers say C-Fast – developed from bomb detection technology – will revolutionise diagnosis of other diseasesThe device the doctor held in his hand was not a contraption you expect to find in a rural hospital near the banks of the Nile.For a start, it was adapted from a bomb detector used by the Egyptian army. Second, it looked like the antenna for a car radio. Third, and most bizarrely, it could – the doctor claimed – remotely detect the presence of liver disease in patients sitting several feet away, within seconds.The antenna was a prototype for a device called C-Fast. If its Egyptian developers are to be be...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - February 25, 2013 Category: Science Authors: Patrick Kingsley Tags: Middle East and North Africa World news Egypt guardian.co.uk Medical research Society Features Hepatitis C Science Source Type: news
Socio-demographic Predictors for Urban Community Disaster Health Risk Perception and Household Based Preparedness in a Chinese Urban City
CONCLUSION
The current findings suggest that future research and policy formulation should focus on strengthening household disaster preparedness, and enhancing disaster health risk literacy in the general public. High level disaster-related mitigation knowledge within the community is an essential asset in the development of preparedness enhancement programs. Further investigation will be necessary to examine other aspects of disaster health risk literacy, including the capability and skills to acquire, evaluate and comprehend disaster-related information, and the ability to implement emergency response plans to mitigate ...
Source: PLOS Currents Disasters - June 27, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Emily YY Chan Source Type: research
The Genetics of Life and Death: Virus-Host Interactions Underpinning Resistance to African Swine Fever, a Viral Hemorrhagic Disease
Conclusion and Future Perspectives
The mechanisms which result in reduced viral replication and lack of disease in African wild suids after ASFV infection are largely unknown. The data so far indicate that this is not due to an intrinsic difference in the ability of the virus to replicate in macrophages from these hosts. A more likely explanation is that the innate immune system of these hosts is better able to control virus replication resulting in a reduced systemic infection and reduced pathogenesis. This may involve a balance between virus and host factors which has evolved over long term infections of these hosts. Se...
Source: Frontiers in Genetics - May 2, 2019 Category: Genetics & Stem Cells Source Type: research
Cardiovascular Parameters in a Swine Model of Normobaric Hypoxia Treated With 5-Hydroxymethyl-2-Furfural (5-HMF)
Conclusion: 5-HMF treatment decreased P50, improved SaO2, and mitigated increases in PAP in this swine model of NH.
Introduction
The reduction of barometric pressure at altitude is associated with reduced partial pressure of ambient Oxygen (PO2). With lower ambient PO2, it can be anticipated that alveolar (PAO2), arterial O2 (PaO2) and blood O2 content (CaO2) will decrease accordingly, resulting in a widely recognized decrease in maximal O2 consumption (VO2) (Dill and Adams, 1972; Lucas et al., 2011). In humans, with acute exposure to altitude, maximal VO2 decrements are measurable at elevations even as low as 580 ...
Source: Frontiers in Physiology - April 17, 2019 Category: Physiology Source Type: research
Diagnostic value of sleep stage dissociation as visualized on a 2-Dimensional sleep state space in human narcolepsy
Conclusion Sleep stage dissociation can be used for the diagnosis of narcolepsy. However the use of some medications and presence of undiagnosed hypersomnolence patients impacts the result.
Source: Journal of Neuroscience Methods - February 20, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: research
Pandemic influenza A (H1N1) in Saudi Arabia: description of the first one hundred cases
CONCLUSION: Pandemic influenza A (H1N1) is still a threat to Saudi Arabia. Thus, comprehensive and effective measures for surveillance and prevention of the disease are needed to control its spread.
Source: Annals of Saudi Medicine - July 17, 2017 Category: General Medicine Tags: ISSUE 1 Source Type: research
Infant hip check is missing problems, study shows
‘Extra assessment and better training needed’ Related items fromOnMedica Under-fives must play more and spend less time sitting with screens Should we have compulsory measles vaccination at school entry? Swine flu jab in pregnancy safe for children as well as mothers Pay more heed to parent concern over sick children Women with small babies can safely wait for labour
Source: OnMedica Latest News - February 24, 2020 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
COVID-19: Lessons from the Losses
Clementine, a community health volunteer, meets with a mother and child. Credit: Lys Arango for Action Against Hunger, KenyaBy Dr Patrick AmothNAIROBI, Kenya, Sep 7 2020 (IPS) If countries considered Universal Health Coverage (UHC) a central policy in their health systems, the COVID-19 has surely demonstrated the need for its urgent and widespread roll out. The pandemic has upended world systems in a manner that no scientists or sophisticated global intelligence could have foreseen.
Having been tapped to join the World Health Organization’s Executive Board to represent Africa midst this global crisis, I am persuaded tha...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - September 7, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Dr Patrick Amoth Tags: Africa Development & Aid Economy & Trade Education Headlines Health Human Rights Humanitarian Emergencies Labour TerraViva United Nations Trade & Investment Source Type: news
Commentary: Training in the time of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
As the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) virus spread around the world, no aspect of society was spared. Our medical systems strained to and in some cases beyond the breaking point, the effects of the pandemic on cardiothoracic surgery trainees could easily be overlooked. During the 1918 influenza epidemic, perhaps the most comparable historical reference point for the current crisis, little is known from the trainee perspective. Archives from Peter Bent Brigham Hospital mention that, “The Surgical Staff loaned to the Medical four of their house officers to care for influenza cases, and very generously the surgeons cur...
Source: The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery - September 10, 2020 Category: Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery Authors: Frederick A. Tibayan Tags: Commentary Source Type: research
A novel and effective balanced intravenous-inhalant anaesthetic protocol in Swine by using unrestricted drugs.
This study demonstrates that the proposed balanced intravenous-inhalant protocol permits to carry out a very effective, stable and safe anaesthesia in swine undergoing deep anaesthesia.
PMID: 25030879 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Experimental Animals - December 2, 2014 Category: Research Tags: Exp Anim Source Type: research
These Researchers Are Using Artificial Intelligence to Make a Better Flu Vaccine
The influenza virus is a particularly nasty bug, thanks in no small part to how rapidly it mutates. Every time the flu virus changes, it becomes harder for humans to develop an immunity. Even our best external defense against influenza, the flu shot, is based on experts’ best guess as to which flu strain or strains are most likely to be prevalent during a given flu season. Sometimes they’re right — this season’s vaccine has turned out to be a relatively good match for the strains currently in circulation. But sometimes they get it wrong, potentially leading to a more severe flu season. And influenza...
Source: TIME: Health - March 5, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alejandro de la Garza Tags: Uncategorized Life Reinvented medicine onetime Source Type: news
