Nanotechnology's miniature answers to developing world's biggest problems
...pines, Chile, and Argentina. "Resource-rich member nations of the international community have a self-interest and a moral obligation to support the development and use by less industrialized countries of these top 10 nanotechnologies to address key development challenges," says Dr. Abdallah Daar, MD, Direct...Institute of Medicine advisory: April 19 public briefing on HIV/AIDS crisis abroad
...ntries. Preventing and treating HIV/AIDS in these nations will require unprecedented health systems and human resources to deliver medication and oversee patients long term. HEALERS ABROAD: AMERICANS RESPONDING TO THE HUMAN RESOURCE CRISIS IN HIV/AIDS, new from the Institute of Medicine of the National Aca...Institute of Medicine news: Human resource crisis in HIV/AIDS
...f qualified health care workers in many low-income nations is often the biggest roadblock in mounting effecti...eventing and treating HIV/AIDS in these developing nations will require unprecedented health systems and human resource initiatives. GHS should be based in t...Electroshock therapy speeds improvement in schizophrenia patients
...o use in the late 1930s, but it waned in developed nations with the introduction of antipsychotics and antidepressants in the 1950s. Tharyan says that in countries with few state-funded social services, ECT can be useful as the more rapid treatment because the impact of long-running schizophrenia can cause b...Who needs health care the well or the sick?
...ountries to those with treatable disease in poorer nations will benefit the health of everyone, argues a doctor in this week's BMJ. Seventy per cent of the UK population is taking medicines to treat or prevent ill health or to enhance wellbeing. How can this level of medicine taking be appropriate in a popul...Guava and AHF Global Immunity bring low cost AIDS diagnosis to resource-limited countries
...hip aimed at increasing access in resource-limited nations to AIDS diagnosis and treatment monitoring. The pa...urrently marketing the EasyCD4 system and assay in nations where the need is greatest, those outside of the United States, Europe and Japan. The Guava EasyCD4 ...U.S. ranks highest worldwide in use of high-tech imaging
... a factor of three between less and more developed nations while MR and CT use varied by a factor of 100," Dr. Schweitzer said. When income was factored into the equation, some of the world's poorest countries (India, China and Indonesia,) had the highest utilization of X-rays relative to dollars of income. ...New partnership launched to accelerate and evaluate national malaria control program in Africa
...intended to serve as a model for how other African nations can cut malaria deaths dramatically. MACEPA's global partners include the Roll Back Malaria Partnership Secretariat; the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria; and the World Bank, which are committed to working closely to coordinate c...Cancer as major cause of childhood death in developing countries not being adequately addressed
...ediatric cancer units are created in resource-poor nations and if their development promotes international cell and tissue banks and the ability to collect long-term treatment follow-up data....Oslo press event launches 46664 Arctic and spearheads a four-day spotlight on Africa
...lling for funds to save lives of people in poorest nations Speakers from the Nelson Mandela Foundation, together with the largest international financiers of global health, will urge the G8 to provide new funds for healthcare systems strained by AIDS and preventable childhood diseases, and will release ...Men, women disagree on number of guns at home, new study finds
...re common in the United States compared with other nations not at war. In 2001, for example, 233 unintentional firearm injuries occurred among children under age 6. During the same year, there were 2,118 firearm-related fatalities among those 18 and younger. The new research consisted of telephone interviews...Blood-based TB test matches up to old skin test in study among health workers in India
...ay turn out to be more cost-effective in developed nations like the United States where labor costs are higher," said Pai. For this study, researchers analyzed the results of 726 health care workers from the Mahatma Gandhi Institute, a rural hospital in Sevagram, India, that treats about 300 tuberculosis pat...Seven deadly sins: A new look at society through an old lens
...t the UK level but is also present in the devolved nations despite extravagant claims made in the 1990s about a new politics of better participation for ordinary citizens....Saving six million children each year is affordable
...lennium Development Goal for child survival--where nations pledged to ensure reduction of two-thirds in child mortality between 1990 and 2015--will not be met, state the authors. Jennifer Bryce, the lead author of the study, concludes: "$5 billion is about 6% of expenditures for tobacco products in the USA ...Conflicts pitting doctors vs. patients / kin is #1 issue in medical ethics, Canadian experts say
... clash of value systems in Canada and elsewhere as nations become more culturally diverse. JCB director Dr. Peter A. Singer said he hopes the study will help focus attention on the top challenges and build public support for action to address the problem of conflict between health care professionals and the ...Canadian researchers call for more angiograms
...da is about the middle of the pack among developed nations in terms of angiograms prescribed per capita (with the U.S. prescribing by far the most), so there are many other places around the world where increased use of angiograms would result in more high-risk people being detected and subsequently treated....Potent spice works to block growth of melanoma in lab test
...It has long been utilized in India and other Asian nations for multiple uses: as a food-preservative, a coloring agent, a folk medicine to cleanse the body, and as a spice to flavor food (two to five percent of turmeric is curcumin, for example). While researchers had thought curcumin primarily has anti-infl...Poland loses record numbers of doctors to the UK
...numbers of its doctors to the UK and other Western nations of the European Union, says a letter in this week's BMJ. Following accession to the EU, nearly 500 Polish doctors registered with the UK's General Medical Council in one year - 30 times as many as in the previous year. The Scandanavian countries are...The ACCP strives to close the 10/90 gap between rich and poor nations
...Oaks, CA (September 28, 2005) Medical need in poor nations is a widely discussed issue in the medical and science communities. They refer to an arguable disparity in resources applied as the 10/90 gap, i.e., 10 percent of global health resources are applied to health problems that account for 90 percent of t...Delivery of aid to Africa: Changes needed to ensure money reaches poor
...etter health and stronger economies in the poorest nations will be difficult. Malcolm Potts (University of California, USA) and Claus Janisch (KfW Banking Group, Frankfurt, Germany) argue that one way to target money more accurately is thorough output-based assistance (OBA). With OBA an independent managemen...