Need For HIV Guidelines For Health Workers In Developing Countries
...nce of HIV infection among patients that are cared for is very high in some poorer countries and that suc... Gilks and Wilkinson conclude that there is a need for realistic, usable guidelines for both for those working overseas in medical environments and for the...Fat: It's Not For Breakfast Anymore; Study Finds Fat Linked To Clotting
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...urance companiesare responding to market pressures for coverage of selective alternative therapies, says ...ng number ofAmericans are going beyond biomedicine for health care treatment and prevention, Gordon said. Gordon and her co-authors cited a Harvard...Protecting Breast Feeding From Breast Milk Substitutes
...rought into line when they face substantial claims for damages from consumers. He suggests that in the m... the articles of the code of marketing substitutes for breast milk into national legislation. Secondly, he suggests that monitoring for overt violations s...Baby Milk Manufacturers Are Breaking The Rules
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... "this promising new therapy offers an alternative for patients with severe chest pain who may need a hea... called angina, in patients who are not candidates for angioplasty or bypass surgery. After six months of follow-up, patients receiving TMR in this study ...... aminosidine (paromomycin) v sodium stibogluconate for treating visceral leishmaniasis in North Bihar, India) Bihar in north east India accounts for half the annual worldwide cases of visceral leishmaniasis (a disease transmitted by sandfly bites)....International Study Raises Hopes For Heart Transplant Patients
...ntages, which may translate into improved outcomes for heart transplant recipients. In 1995, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Neoral for theprevention of organ rejection. Based upon scientific registry data from theUnited Network for Or..."TRAMAH" Model Seeks To Improve Emergency Response Paper Uses Maryland As Test Region
...livered at theMontreal conference of the Institute for Operations Research and the ManagementSciences (IN... 28. The model, a Trauma Resource Allocation Model for Ambulances and Hospitals(TRAMAH), assists trauma system planners in better locating their resources ...Studies Look At Threshold Effect Of Cholesterol-Lowering "Statin" Drugs
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A new study outlines the criteria for identifying hundreds of thousands ofAmericans who ...y to have astroke than people without, and account for as many as 80,000 strokes a year. The findings are from Part III of a decade-long study called Strok...Widely Used Therapy May Not Be Effective In Treatment Of Acute Stroke
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