Word: iv
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...about that war: "We will stay on the offense," he said at the Allen fund raiser in Virginia. "We will keep the enemy on the run." This, on a day when Major General William B. Caldwell IV issued the starkest assessment of the carnage to date: that our Operation Together Forward-the half-baked attempt by Iraqi and U.S. forces to secure Baghdad-had failed. Privately, high-ranking military officials were saying that the situation on the ground in Iraq was now dire. Indeed, Bush's Iraq project and his Republican Party seemed to be spinning out of control simultaneously...
...Across the Bangladeshi delta, oral rehydration was also gaining ground at the Johns Hopkins Center for Medical Research and Training in Calcutta. Teams at both centers knew they had an effective treatment - but they faced resistance from a profession that dismissed such a basic remedy as inferior to costlier IV saline fluids. The opportunity to prove oral rehydration's worth came in the form of a disaster. When Bangladesh's war for independence from Pakistan broke out in 1971, 9 million refugees poured into India, bringing cholera with them. Dilip Mahalanabis, an Indian doctor who had participated in the oral...
...Mahalanabis' gamble paid off. The fatality rate among the patients in the camp fell to 3% from 30%, and to less than 1% when IV fluids were administered to the most severely ill. Still, skepticism about the effectiveness of oral rehydration continued. Several journals refused to publish Mahalanabis' paper about the outbreak. But Dhiman Barua, then head of WHO's bacterial diseases unit in Geneva, Switzerland and a survivor of the massive 1932 cholera epidemic in Bangladesh's southern port city of Chittagong, had visited Mahalanabis' camp. He was converted and pushed oral rehydration through all the U.N. health agencies...
...threat of anthrax and other biological agents led administrators to consider the high risk of contagion in residential colleges. They try to preempt, rather than acting after the fact.The Hot ZoneLate in the evening of Dec. 8 of 1994, freshmen began streaming into Stillman Infirmary; thirty students would receive IV treatment on site. UHS Director David S. Rosenthal ’59, who was also director at that time, recalls that he didn’t return home until 48 hours after the start of the epidemic.From the start, Rosenthal said UHS, the Centers for Disease Control...
Charles R. Drummond IV...