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Study examines risk factors in recurrent child abuse, neglect

(Medical Xpress)—The shorter the intervals between previous child maltreatment incidents, the greater the likelihood that the child will experience abuse or neglect in the future, suggests a new study by a social work professor ...

Health created May 07, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Medical neglect law needs shot in the arm

A review of criminal investigations into medical error, conducted by a University of Manchester team, has shown how difficult it is to convict doctors and nurses for wilfully failing their patients.

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Fralin entomologists map out the genetics behind a deadly disease

(Medical Xpress)—Stopping the spread of dengue infection— a potentially fatal tropical disease transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito— could be one of the biggest challenges of our time. About half of the human ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Mar 21, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers develop prototype chikungunya vaccine

Wageningen University in the Netherlands has developed a prototype vaccine against chikungunya in a joint effort with the Erasmus Medical Centre and TI Pharma. This prototype may hopefully lead to the first working vaccine ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Mar 21, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Tapeworm DNA contains drug weak spots

For the first time, researchers have mapped the genomes of tapeworms to reveal potential drug targets on which existing drugs could act. The genomes provide a new resource that offers faster ways to develop urgently needed ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Mar 13, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Catastrophic neglect behind child deaths often overlooked

Neglect is not being taken seriously enough and should be treated with the same urgency as physical or sexual abuse, the NSPCC children's charity warned today following the publication of new research by the University of ...

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Deworming important for children's health, has limited impact on infection in wider communities

Although they have an important impact on children's health and education, school-based deworming programmes have a limited impact on the level of infection in the wider community, according to a mathematical modeling study ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Feb 28, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Child protection system failing up to 1.5 million UK children, children's charity warns

Nine out of ten teachers, police officers and social workers are regularly coming into contact with children they suspect are suffering from neglect yet as many as 40 per cent feel powerless to intervene, ...

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Sleeping sickness by stealth

(Medical Xpress)—Stealth is a well-known concept in military tactics. Almost since the invention of radar, the hunt began for counter-technologies to hide aircraft and missiles from detection – most successfully ...

Immunology created Feb 05, 2013 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control 1995—2015: Model-estimated health impact and cost

A relatively inexpensive program set up to combat river blindness, an infectious disease, has resulted in major health improvements in Africa, shows a study conducted by Erasmus University Medical Center researchers. The ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Jan 31, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Integrated neglected tropical disease control and elimination programs: A global health 'best buy'

A recently released report, entitled "Social and Economic Impact Review on Neglected Tropical Diseases," highlights links between neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) and socio-economic prosperity. Published by Hudson Institute's ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Jan 17, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

WHO: Dengue showing global 'epidemic potential'

The World Health Organisation said on Wednesday that it had charted progress in the fight against tropical diseases but warned that dengue fever was spreading at an alarming rate.

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Chances seen rising for chikungunya outbreaks in NYC, Atlanta, Miami

Global travel and climate warming could be creating the right conditions for outbreaks of a new virus in this country, according to a new Cornell University computer model.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Dec 17, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Millions of patients still waiting for medical 'breakthroughs' against neglected diseases

Despite important progress in research and development (R&D) for global health over the past decade, only a small fraction of new medicines developed between 2000 and 2011 were for the treatment of neglected diseases, highlighting ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Dec 13, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New oral drug candidate for African sleeping sickness

A new oral-only treatment for sleeping sickness has entered Phase II/III clinical study in patients with late-stage sleeping sickness in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and soon in Central African Republic (CAR). ...

Medications created Dec 06, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Neglect

Neglect is a passive form of abuse in which a perpetrator is responsible to provide care for a victim who is unable to care for himself or herself, but fails to provide adequate care.

Neglect may include the failure to provide sufficient supervision, nourishment, or medical care, or the failure to fulfill other needs for which the victim is helpless to provide for himself or herself. The term is also applied when necessary care is withheld by those responsible for providing it from animals, plants, and even inanimate objects. Neglect can carry on in a childs life falling into many long-term side effects such as; physical injuries, low self-esteem, attention disorders, violent behavior, and can even cause death.

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