PAHO Working With Affected Communities In Central America
...ople have died, 6,000 have disappeared, 11,000 are wounded and more than 30,000 families are homeless, PAHO officials are working to reestablish water supplies and strengthen disease surveillance. Immediate priorities in Honduras also include acquiring essential drugs and vaccines, disseminating educational......ilitation, borne by the convictionthat the sick or wounded might be healed, not merely cared for. As scientificunderstanding grew, the house of rehabilitation became the house of cure. In our time, Risse writes, the top hospitals focus on teaching and research,where the newest, boldest techniques are develo...U.S., British scientific societies honor penicillin as International Chemical Landmark
...ar were virtually eliminated, as 95 percent of the wounded soldiers survived. The American Chemical Society designates important steps in the evolution of chemical science and technology as Historic Chemical Landmarks. "The landmarks program reminds us of the grandeur of chemistry, while underlining that c...Grape seed extract help speed up wound recovery, study suggests
... While grape-seed extract is good news for wounded tissue, topical grape seed extract isn't sold commercially. And consumers shouldn't expect to get the same wound-healing benefits from taking grape-seed extract in vitamin form, Sen said....Morphine-like painkiller appears to be less addictive
... be self-administered by soldiers who are severely wounded during battle without depending on the assistance of a medic. "Our hope is that glycosylated enkephalins can be used to block pain in severe trauma injuries, in victims who could not normally receive narcotics," says Polt, who is currently serving as...Controlled study after Dutch caf fire highlights teen mental-health problems after disasters
... a fire in a café in Volendam, Netherlands, wounded 250 adolescents and killed 14. At the time of the disaster, 124 students (aged 12-15 years) of a school in Volendam--31 of whom were in the café at the time of the fire--and 830 students from two other schools in the Netherlands not involved i...Environmental influences found to have role for development and function of the pain system
...n response to touch and pressure of the originally wounded skin area was recorded from the sensory neurons in their spinal cord. The properties of sensory neurons in the spinal cord were different from control animals, in that the receptive fields, that is, the area of skin that when stimulated excites senso...Dealing with casualties from a terrorist attack
...robably reflects a bias in triage of many severely wounded patients to our hospital, which was closest to the blasts", say the authors. 32 victims sent to GMUGH needed 34 surgical procedures on the day of the blast. Twenty-nine casualties (12% of the total or 32.5% of those hospitalised) were deemed in criti...Patients with abdominal trauma at risk for intra-abdominal infections following surgery
...m wounds or with blunt trauma, compared with those wounded by stabbing.""Intra-abdominal infection developed in 81 patients (10.6 percent)," the researchers found. Their analysis revealed that the likelihood of infection increased with more severe wounds, "contamination of the abdominal cavity, and admissi...