Word: diarrheas
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...nasty little bug almost none of us have heard of but too many of us could encounter soon. The pathogen is known as Clostridium difficile-or C. diff as the scientists call it-a bacterium that used to confine itself to elderly or very ill hospital patients, causing severe diarrhea and nausea. A few doses of antibiotics used to be all it took to knock...
There are many places the Gateses could go together for an adventure. That they chose to come to India and Bangladesh to sit on concrete floors and talk about tuberculosis and diarrhea sets them apart from most globe-trotting billionaires. But their relationship with the developing world is even more complicated than that. As they tour hospitals and huts, they seem to delight in these escapades, not just because they are intellectually captivated by the scientific challenge of treating the diseases of the poor but also because they are convinced that they are living through a historic inflection point when...
...place known as the Cholera Hospital, where they are helping fund groundbreaking research on pneumonia. On their tour, they walked into a room full of 30 crying babies and their mothers. All the babies had cholera, and they were lying on gurneys with holes in the center so that diarrhea would land in a bucket below...
...attention and learning. Halfway around the world, a study of Bangladeshi children demonstrated the life-saving health benefits of minimal levels of this essential mineral. In a yearlong study of 1,621 children ages 2 months to 1 year, zinc supplements either prevented or lessened symptoms of pneumonia and diarrhea--conditions that kill millions of children each year in the developing world. Compared with the placebo group, children who took a weekly 70-mg dose of zinc had an 85% reduced risk of death...
...tell the tale. Earlier this year, China's Minister of Water Resources announced that 300 million people drink contaminated water on a daily basis. Of these, 190 million consume water so contaminated that it is making them sick. Children are particularly susceptible?more than 30,000 die annually from diarrhea due to unclean water. Wang Bin, director of the Ministry of Health's Women's Health Division, has linked environmental pollution to the 25% increase in birth defects China recorded between...