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An outbreak of Ebola fever in the Democratic Republic of Congo may have killed up to 33 people, while the number of suspected cases has risen, the health ministry said on Thursday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-ebola-dr-congo-health-ministry.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 27 Sep 2012 11:00:01 EST news267959765 (AP)—Families may have to watch for dents in the car and plead with an older driver to give up the keys—but there is new evidence that doctors could have more of an influence on one of the most wrenching decisions facing a rapidly aging population. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-families-key-docs-role.html Health Wed, 26 Sep 2012 17:44:42 EST news267900274 Two studies from UNICEF, forming The Lancet Series on equity in child survival, health, and nutrition, provide compelling evidence for the strategic importance of focusing global health improvement efforts on the poorest and hardest to reach children. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-unicef-highlight-importance-equity-maternal.html Health Wed, 19 Sep 2012 18:30:04 EST news267291141 An outbreak of Ebola fever in the Democratic Republic of Congo may have claimed up to 32 lives since May, including that of a woman who had just given birth, the World Health Organisation said Tuesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-ebola-dr-congo.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 18 Sep 2012 06:41:08 EST news267169260 (AP)—Public health workers are warning more recent visitors to Yosemite National Park that they may have been exposed to a deadly rodent-borne disease. Two guests have died of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome and at least one was sickened. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-health-yosemite-guests.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 30 Aug 2012 12:41:08 EST news265549261 (Medical Xpress)—Despite nearly three decades of conflict, Sri Lanka has succeeded in reducing malaria cases by 99.9 percent since 1999 and is on track to eliminate the disease entirely by 2014. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-malaria-sri-lanka-decades-conflict.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 30 Aug 2012 10:10:02 EST news265538929 Around 22,000 Pakistani children are at risk in Karachi after the World Health Organization suspended polio vaccinations over a spate of bloody shootings, a UN official warned Thursday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-polio-suspension-pakistan-children.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Thu, 02 Aug 2012 09:38:42 EST news263119116 At least 15 people have died in Uganda from the deadly Ebola virus with the toll likely to rise further, the health ministry said Wednesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-08-ebola-deaths-uganda-cases.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 01 Aug 2012 11:04:48 EST news263037882 (Medical Xpress) -- The number of children diagnosed with tuberculosis only represents the tip of the iceberg, according to the University of Sydney's Associate Professor Ben Marais, a specialist in childhood tuberculosis writing in the latest issue of The New England Journal of Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-children-tb.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Fri, 27 Jul 2012 10:44:13 EST news262604645 Could a low-cost screening device connected to a cell phone save thousands of women and children from anemia-related deaths and disabilities? http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-undergrads-cell-screener-combat-anemia.html Medical research Tue, 24 Jul 2012 15:52:04 EST news262363911 Leading AIDS charity amfAR honored Microsoft tycoon Bill Gates on the eve of the International AIDS Conference, for his part in funding an ongoing struggle against the disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-aids-charity-honors-gates-eve.html HIV & AIDS Sun, 22 Jul 2012 15:32:48 EST news262189962 An epidemic of H1N1 flu has infected almost 900 people and claimed 11 lives in Bolivia, health officials said Tuesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-07-h1n1-outbreak-bolivia.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 04 Jul 2012 04:03:47 EST news260593415 Employment policy is also health policy according to a University of British Columbia study that found that workers experienced higher mortality rates if they didn't have access to social protections like employment insurance and unemployment benefits. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-unemployed-americans-greater-mortality.html Health Thu, 28 Jun 2012 03:26:52 EST news260072752 British charity Save the Children on Wednesday said it was a "global scandal" that 50,000 teenagers die each year due to pregnancy and childbirth complications. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-teenage-pregnancy-deaths-global-scandal.html Pediatrics Wed, 27 Jun 2012 03:15:26 EST news259985721 (Medical Xpress) -- Even with an imminent Supreme Court ruling on the health care overhaul law, it's still the primary care physician and the local community that will determine the path of true health care reform. That's the message from "Communities of Solution: The Folsom Report Revisited," a policy paper published online in the May/June issue of Annals of Family Medicine. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-06-health-reform-local-court-decision.html Health Thu, 21 Jun 2012 06:33:48 EST news259478449 "Treatment of mental disorders within the health care system needs to be accompanied by a community-based approach that focuses on psychosocial problems," say the authors of a case study from Afghanistan published in this week's PLoS Medicine as part of the newly launched series on global mental health practice. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-health-approaches-mental-afghanistan.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 29 May 2012 17:00:03 EST news257522271 (AP) -- Getting AIDS test results from labs to remote villages once took weeks in Mozambique, with the information sent by courier along the impoverished country's terrible roads. The delay could mean death. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-aids-africa.html HIV & AIDS Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:10:35 EST news253275007 Today, the European Respiratory Society (ERS) and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) publish their jointly developed European Union Standards for Tuberculosis Care (ESTC). The 21 patient-centred standards aim to guide clinicians and public health workers to ensure optimal diagnosis, treatment and prevention of tuberculosis (TB) in Europe – with nearly 74,000 reported TB cases in the EU/EEA in 2010 clearly showing that TB remains a public health challenge across the region. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-tb-ecdc-ers-guidelines-tuberculosis.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Sun, 01 Apr 2012 06:10:18 EST news252479411 We've all heard about the stress experienced by victims of 9/11, but have we ever paused to think about the effect of those terrorist attacks on mental health clinicians who provided care to the victims? A new study by Mary Pulido, Ph.D., from the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children in the US, provides a sobering account of what it was like for these professionals and reports on the lack of support they received. Her exploratory study, published in Springer's Clinical Social Work Journal, highlights the critical need to develop training and expand support systems for clinicians in order to combat secondary traumatic stress. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-mental-health-workers-overlooked-victims.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 27 Mar 2012 10:52:09 EST news252064323 As many as 70,000 children are dying every year from tuberculosis, as the curable disease often goes unnoticed due to a failure by health workers to recognise the symptoms, the WHO said Wednesday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-children-dying-year-tuberculosis.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 21 Mar 2012 08:20:25 EST news251536816 Post-partum haemorrhage (PPH; excessive bleeding) immediately after giving birth is a major killer of women in developing countries, responsible for a third of maternal deaths in Africa and Asia. Results of an international trial published Online First in The Lancet are the first to show that omitting controlled cord traction has little effect on the risk of severe bleeding, indicating that effective prevention of PPH could be accomplished with just a uterotonic agent (e.g. oxytocin). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-approach-post-birth-safe-effective.html Health Mon, 05 Mar 2012 18:30:02 EST news250174567 India was taken off a list of polio endemic countries by the World Health Organisation on Saturday, marking a massive victory for health workers battling the crippling disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-india-polio-major-milestone.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Sat, 25 Feb 2012 13:09:32 EST news249397736 (AP) -- The Obama administration declared Alzheimer's "one of the most feared health conditions" on Wednesday as it issued a draft of a new national strategy to fight the ominous rise in this mind-destroying disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-alzheimer-disease_1.html Alzheimer's disease & dementia Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:10:01 EST news249152439 Cognitive stimulation therapies have beneficial effects on memory and thinking in people with dementia, according to a systematic review by Cochrane researchers. Despite concerns that cognitive improvements may not be matched by improvements in quality of life, the review also found positive effects for well-being. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-cognitive-beneficial-dementia.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 15 Feb 2012 04:13:38 EST news248501612 Providing for fundamental human needs to people who are close to death is complex and sophisticated, but ultimately involves the integration of physical, psychological, social and spiritual elements, according to a study published in this week's PLoS Medicine by a group of international researchers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-end-of-life-complex-aims-comfort.html Health Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:00:11 EST news248460145 (AP) -- Efforts by India and the European Union to strengthen trade are threatening India's ability to deliver lifesaving medicines to the world's poorest, analysts say as the two sides push through protracted negotiations on a free-trade pact. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-india-global-pharmacy-role-threatened.html Medications Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:30:02 EST news248074058 Health workers in Nepal are to cull thousands of chickens following the discovery of the H5N1 strain of bird flu in the southeastern part of the Himalayan country, officials said Sunday. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-nepal-mass-poultry-cull-bird.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:49:27 EST news247643232 Frontline health workers—including nursing assistants, paramedics and pharmacy technicians—who received a combination of benefits and support from their employers had higher job satisfaction, a new study found. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-workplace-empowerment-front-line-health-workers.html Health Thu, 12 Jan 2012 07:20:01 EST news245573879 Padma Biswokarma covers her young son with a blanket as she breastfeeds, a broad smile spreading across her face. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-nepal-child-malnutrition-silent-emergency.html Health Thu, 05 Jan 2012 04:30:02 EST news244959108 A UT Southwestern Medical Center study using a sophisticated "glass mouse" research model has found that multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) is more likely caused in patients by speedy drug metabolism rather than inconsistent doses, as is widely believed. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-effectiveness-tb-treatment.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 28 Dec 2011 10:17:38 EST news244289845