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New Insight into Predicting Cholera in the Bengal Delta
Scientists have tried, without much success, to determine the cause of these unique dual outbreaks – and advance early detection and prevention efforts – by analyzing such variables as precipitation, ...
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Read moreIs the person next to you washing their hands with soap?
The study, published in the American Journal of Public Health, looked at responses to electronic hygiene messages displayed in UK service station toilets. A million people die every year from ...
Studies and Analyses | Read moreFruit juices contain more vitamin C than their labels indicate
Ascorbic acid or vitamin C is a natural antioxidant in fruits and vegetables, but the European Commission permits its use as an additive in juices, jams, dairy products and other foods. The involvemen...
Health and Medicine | Read moreSickle cell study boosts call for improved childhood immunization programs in Africa
Sickle cell anaemia affects millions of people worldwide, but more than eighty per cent of cases are in Africa, where 200,000 children are born with the disease every year. It is a genetic disease, wh...
Studies and Analyses | Read moreThe tiny difference in the genes of bacteria
It is based on detecting short, repetitive DNA segments in the genome of bacteria. Every single bacterial strain has such characteristic repeats. "With this method we are able to identify bacteri...
Life Sciences | Read moreSimple measures may prevent transmission of stomach ulcer bacteria
This is shown in a thesis at the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. It is therefore possible to prevent the spread of the bacterium in developing countries through some fairly simp...
Health and Medicine | Read moreSalmonella and self-sacrifice
Our large intestines are heavily populated by bacteria and as such really do not have space for newcomers. Despite this, Salmonella are able to multiply there. In a project funded by the Swiss...
Health and Medicine | Read moreDiarrhoea treatment fails to reach the poorest children
A new study from the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet now shows that almost half a billion cases of child diarrhoea a year could be treated if they all received treatment equal to the ...
Health and Medicine | Read moreHerbal medicines for treatment of gastrointestinal disease
In a study published in Neurogastroenterology and Motility, researchers reviewed data on Japanese herbal medicines and found them to be effective in reducing the symptoms of GI disorders such as funct...
Health and Medicine | Read moreStudy shows how Salmonella survives in environment
Salmonella are microscopic living creatures that can contaminate almost any food type, causing diarrhoea, abdominal pain and fever. Scientists know that Salmonella – which can also cause typhoid fever...
Life Sciences | Read moreGut parasites that can infect man are widespread in domestic and wild animals in Norway
Some species and genotypes of Cryptosporidium and Giardia are important zooneses, as they occur in both animals and man. Zooneses are diseases that may be transmitted between animals and people....
Life Sciences | Read moreGene technology to fight lethal hospital acquired infection
The 3 million euro, three-year study will use gene knock-out technology developed in Nottingham to study the function of genes in a ‘super’ strain of the bacteria Clostridium difficile to discover why...
Life Sciences | Read moreWater is life, guard it well
DZULKIFLI ABDUL RAZAK: Water is life, guard it well* The writer is vice-chancellor of Universiti Sains Malaysia and can be contacted at vc@usm.com.myThis article was published in the N...
Ecology, The Environment and Conservation | Read moreStudy improves recovery for mothers with depression
Although depression is a major health problem world-wide, experts say its impact is greatest in developing countries where 80% of the population live. Often there are no resources available to treat s...
Health and Medicine | Read moreNew promising obesity drug may have huge potential
Tesofensine can produce weight loss twice that of currently approved obesity drugs, and should be studied in phase III trials. These are the conclusions of an Article published early Online and in an ...
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