Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Freedom, dignity in French Alzheimer's 'village'
The small village, like most in France, has a cafe-restaurant, a hairdresser, a superette and a library.
Sep 21, 2020
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News tagged with villages
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
'Super-spreader' guru puts Indian villages on high alert
At least 15,000 people who may have caught the coronavirus from a 'super-spreader' guru are under strict quarantine in northern India after the Sikh religious leader died of COVID-19.
Mar 28, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
UK 'plague village' offers lesson for a country under lockdown
In the 17th century, residents in the remote English village of Eyam quarantined themselves to prevent the spread of bubonic plague. Most paid with their lives.
Mar 24, 2020
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Health
Free pads to tackle 'period-shame' school skipping in Bangladesh
Girls in rural villages will get free sanitary pads to stop them skipping school during their periods as a result of social taboos around menstruation, a Bangladesh minister said Monday.
Sep 23, 2019
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Cardiology
Village women prove effective at tackling Indonesia's growing killer
Women from villages in rural Indonesia are playing a key role in detecting and preventing the most common cause of death in Indonesia, cardiovascular disease, with the use of smart phones. Researchers have found that the ...
Sep 09, 2019
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
'Time travel' as dementia care is spreading, but the future may be more powerful than the past
The village of Hogeweyk in The Netherlands has been compared with the Truman Show. It is home to 152 people with dementia and is run by carers who maintain a round-the-clock false reality for the residents. Hogeweyk resembles ...
Jul 29, 2019
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Health
New research proposes using local data in resolving malnutrition
Kwashiorkor, one of the most extreme forms of malnutrition, is estimated to affect more than a hundred thousand children annually. The condition can make a starving child look healthy to the untrained eye, which makes it ...
Aug 23, 2018
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Trial from Niger finds village-wide prophylactic antibiotics contained spread of meningitis
Distribution of single doses of the oral antibiotic ciprofloxacin to residents of rural villages in the African meningitis belt reduced the number of meningitis cases during a 2017 meningitis epidemic, according to a new ...
Jun 26, 2018
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
A holistic approach for mycetoma management
Mycetoma, a neglected tropical disease, can cause severe disfigurement and disability if not treated early. A holistic, community-based approach to detection and case management is effective at boosting disease prognoses, ...
May 10, 2018
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Health
'World's oldest man' dies in Spain aged 113
A Spanish village on Tuesday declared a day of mourning following the death of a retired farmer billed as "the world's oldest man", who passed away just over a month after turning 113.
Jan 30, 2018
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