News tagged with hygienic condition

Lack of antiepileptic drugs hurts awareness, treatment efforts in Zambia

(PhysOrg.com) -- Despite an international effort to raise awareness about epilepsy in resource-poor nations, a recently published study found nearly 50 percent of pharmacies in Zambia do not carry antiepileptic drugs, seriously ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 11, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Mexico gets some bustle back after flu shutdown

(AP) -- Traffic is picking up again, cafes are reopening and cleanup crews are getting universities ready to resume classes. Mexico City has some of its customary bustle back, and the president promises life ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created May 05, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0




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Head and body lice appear to be the same species, genetic study finds

A new study offers compelling genetic evidence that head and body lice are the same species. The finding is of special interest because body lice can transmit deadly bacterial diseases, while head lice do ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Apr 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Healthy piglets? Not with sulfonamides

Recent work from the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna confirms that sulfonamides can be used to control coccidiosis in piglets, although not without considerable effort and expense. In contrast, the drug toltrazuril ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 05, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Cave crew returns to Earth

Take five astronauts and instead of sending them into space take them underground. ESA’s CAVES venture prepares astronauts to work in an international team under real exploration conditions. The latest ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 24, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Finally, an E. coli answer: It was the sprouts

Specialists in high-tech labs tested thousands of vegetables as they hunted for the source of world's deadliest E. coli outbreak, but in the end it was old-fashioned detective work that provided the answer: ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Jun 10, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 9

Filthy toilets a blight on Asian prosperity

Fast-growing Asian economies may be flush with money but filthy toilets remain a blight across the region despite rising standards of living, with dire effects on poverty reduction and public health.

Medicine & Health / Health

created May 02, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 3

Oral vaccine could prevent half of cholera cases, but less effective in kids

Oral vaccines could prevent up to 60 percent of cholera cases in the first two years after vaccination, according to a new review of vaccine studies.

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Mar 16, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

26 percent of herbs eaten in Spain are contaminated with bacteria

A research team from the University of Valencia has discovered that up to 20% of spices and 26% of herbs sold in Spain are contaminated by various bacteria, reducing their quality. The study, which is the ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 03, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Solving the puzzle of Henry VIII

Blood group incompatibility between Henry VIII and his wives could have driven the Tudor king's reproductive woes, and a genetic condition related to his suspected blood group could also explain Henry's dramatic ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Mar 03, 2011 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (14) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Wilful neglect of any patient should be criminal offense for doctors and nurses

The wilful neglect of any patient should become a criminal offence for doctors and nurses in England, as it is in France, suggest ethicists in a leading article published online in the Journal of Medical Ethics.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Feb 01, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

How Safe Is Nano? Nanotoxicology: An interdisciplinary challenge

(PhysOrg.com) -- The rapid development of nanotechnology has increased fears about the health risks of nano-objects. Are these fears justified? Do we need a new discipline, nanotoxicology, to evaluate the ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jan 28, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast


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