Posts Tagged ‘global health’
Health & Medicine - Jun 10, 2010 14:20 - 0 Comments
Baby Bubbler helps children breathe easy
RICE (US)—A newly developed portable device will help children with acute respiratory infections breathe naturally as they recover from illness. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Jun 4, 2010 9:49 - 3 Comments
Why H1N1 developed a resistance to Tamiflu
CALTECH (US)—Biologists have pinpointed molecular changes that helped allow the global spread of resistance to the antiviral medication Tamiflu (oseltamivir) among strains of the seasonal H1N1 flu virus. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Jun 3, 2010 13:42 - 0 Comments
Migrants on the move with tuberculosis
EMORY (US)—To reduce the incidence, spread, and severity of tuberculosis, government policies must ensure that all patients have easy access to diagnosis and treatment, according to a commentary published in The Lancet. (more…)
Science & Technology - May 4, 2010 10:03 - 3 Comments
Team builds centrifuge for $30
RICE (US)—A group of college students has turned a salad spinner into a rudimentary centrifuge that medical clinics in developing countries could use to manually separate blood without electricity. They built it for about $30—including the spinner—using plastic lids, cut-up combs, yogurt containers, and a hot-glue gun. (more…)
Health & Medicine - May 3, 2010 11:50 - 5 Comments
Women outpace men in mortality gains
U. WASHINGTON (US)—Inequality in adult mortality has grown to the point where adult men in Swaziland—the country with the worst mortality rate—now have a probability of premature death that is nine times the mortality rate of the best country, Cyprus. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Oct 2, 2009 10:23 - 0 Comments
HIV keeps morphing to escape immune system
EMORY (US)—HIV’s ability to mutate in response to immune system pressure means the virus can take several escape routes from antibodies, eventually exhausting the immune system, new research shows. (more…)
Earth & Environment - Sep 22, 2009 11:21 - 2 Comments
In the tropics, outbreak and changing landscape
PENN STATE (US)—An international team of researchers is in Ghana as part of a five-year effort to investigate how changes in the environment affect a deforming tropical disease called Buruli ulcer. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Sep 14, 2009 11:37 - 0 Comments
Race to stop new smallpox threat
TULANE (US)—A nationwide effort is under way to develop an inhaled version of an antiviral drug to treat smallpox, a disease that was eradicated worldwide in the 1970s but one that has re-emerged as a possible bioterrorism weapon.
Health & Medicine - Jul 14, 2009 13:12 - 3 Comments
Smallpox eradicated, but vaccine poses new risks
“These infections could prove fatal in as many as 20 percent of cases,” says Lisa Beck, lead author of the new study. “More shockingly, they not only occurred in eczema patients who were immunized themselves, but also in eczema patients who simply came in contact with other recently vaccinated individuals.” (Credit: James Gathany/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
Health & Medicine - May 12, 2009 12:30 - 2 Comments
Have tiny microscope, will travel
RICE (US)—The backbreaking work of delivering medical care to those in need will get a little less so if the next version of Rice University’s Lab-in-a-Backpack incorporates a compact, yet powerful microscope that weighs about a pound. (more…)
