Health
Pneumonia, diarrhea are top killers of kids: UNICEF
Pneumonia and diarrhea are among the top causes of childhood deaths around the world, particularly among the poor, said a report out Friday by the UN Children's Fund.
Jun 8, 2012
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News tagged with rehydration
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Reliability, validity of clinical dehydration scale questioned
(HealthDay) -- A previously derived clinical dehydration scale (CDS) is characterized by moderate interobserver reliability and weak links with objective measures of disease severity for children administered intravenous ...
Apr 23, 2012
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Syria reports 39 dead in cholera outbreak
Syria's health ministry has recorded 39 deaths from cholera and nearly 600 cases in an outbreak spreading in the war-ravaged country that the United Nations warned is "evolving alarmingly".
Oct 5, 2022
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Video: COVID-19 and digestive issues
Nearly half of COVID-19 patients have digestive issues—vomiting, diarrhea, nausea and abdominal pain. In a new Loyola Medicine video, "Coronavirus (COVID-19): Digestive and GI Symptoms," gastroenterologist Amar Naik, MD, ...
Jun 5, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Mozambique cholera cases jump to 139 a day after outbreak
Cholera cases in Mozambique among survivors of a devastating cyclone have shot up to 139, officials said, as nearly 1 million vaccine doses were rushed to the region and health workers desperately tried to improvise treatment ...
Mar 29, 2019
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Treating cholera in Haiti after Hurricane Matthew
Since Dr. Adam Levine arrived in Haiti in late October, he's been managing a cholera treatment unit for International Medical Corps. Hurricane Matthew devastated the area on Oct. 4, creating conditions that foment the spread ...
Nov 10, 2016
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Health
New study finds closing gap in diarrhea care of African children could save 20,000 lives
Young children suffering from diarrheal diseases are less likely to receive life-saving oral rehydration therapy (ORT) if they seek treatment at private, for-profit clinics, according to the first-ever, large-scale study ...
Apr 14, 2014
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Health
Child mortality in Niger plummets
Niger, one of the world's poorest countries, has bucked regional trends to achieve dramatic reductions in child mortality in recent years, according to a Countdown country case study published in The Lancet.
Sep 19, 2012
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Cuba cholera contained, no case in capital: blog
A Cuban cholera outbreak that has claimed three lives has been contained and no cases have been detected in the capital Havana, a pro-government blog reported Wednesday.
Jul 11, 2012
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