News tagged with acute diarrhea
New trial casts doubt on role of zinc supplements in diarrhea treatment
May 05, 2009 |
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Zinc supplementation can be ineffective in the treatment of diarrhea. A randomised controlled trial published in the open access journal BMC Medicine has shown that supplementation with either zinc or zinc and copper is no ...
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Chronic infection may add to developing-world deaths
Feb 12, 2009 |
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Worldwide, nearly 2 million people per year die from diarrhea, the vast majority of them in poor countries in Africa and Asia. The disease accounts for 18 percent of all deaths among children — and yet is almost always preventable ...
Researchers discover significant efficacy of travelers' diarrhea vaccine
Jun 12, 2008 |
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Researchers at The University of Texas School of Public Health have found that patients given a travelers' diarrhea vaccine were significantly less likely to suffer from clinically significant diarrhea than those who received ...
Violence against mothers in Bangladesh associated with health problems in young children
Aug 03, 2009 |
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Almost half of Bangladeshi women with young children experience violence from their husbands, and their children appear to have a higher risk of recent respiratory infections and diarrhea, according to a report in the August ...
Cholera outbreak reported in Namibia
Mar 12, 2008 |
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Health officials in Namibia say one person has died in a cholera outbreak in the Engela Health District, which has been compromised by floods.
Countries slow to use lifesaving diarrhea treatments for children
Oct 08, 2009 |
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Despite evidence that low-cost diarrhea treatments such as lower osmolarity oral rehydration salts (ORS) and zinc supplements could drastically reduce the number of deaths among children, little progress has been made in ...
Ondansetron reduces vomiting, hospital admissions in children with gastroenteritis
Medicine & Health / Medications
Sep 02, 2008 |
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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researchers have demonstrated that a drug called ondansetron helps reduce vomiting, the need for intravenous fluids and hospital admissions in children with acute gastroenteritis.
Children's experts say doctors and parents can sort out symptoms with a checklist
Oct 07, 2008 |
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A young child arrives at the emergency room after several days of abdominal pain, vomiting, and diarrhea and is sent home with a diagnosis of viral gastritis and treatment for the symptoms. The child seems better for a while, ...
Novel compound may treat acute diarrhea
Jun 16, 2008 |
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In a development that may lessen the epidemic of diarrhea-related deaths among children in developing countries, scientists in the laboratory of Nobel Laureate Ferid Murad, M.D., Ph.D., at The University of Texas Health Science ...
Antibiotics Unnecessarily Prescribed for Acute Bronchitis
Medicine & Health / Medications
Nov 16, 2006 |
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Antibiotics are routinely prescribed unnecessarily for acute bronchitis, according to Virginia Commonwealth University findings published in today's issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
Cholesterol-lowering drugs also may protect stem cell transplant patients from GVHD
Dec 04, 2009 |
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Cholesterol-lowering drugs known as statins are among the most prescribed medicines in the U.S. Now a new study by researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center indicates that statins may protect stem cell transplant ...
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