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- 1From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 90, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedA study of almost 3800 pregnancies, in communities on the border of Thailand and Myanmar, provides the most accurate evidence to date of the importance of preventing malaria in pregnancy. The study published in PLoS One...
- 2From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 90, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAn estimated 11 million people are dependent on heroin or other opioid drugs, a condition associated with a high morbidity and 15-fold mortality from causes including overdose and infections such as human...
- 3From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 90, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedFor 69-year-old "Grandma" Cheung, age is no barrier to learning. Every Wednesday she attends a computer class at her neighbourhood centre for senior citizens in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China. She has...
- 4From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 90, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedDonor governments, private philanthropists and pharmaceutical companies have pledged strong support for neglected tropical diseases at a meeting in London on 30 January. Public and private partners have committed to...
- 5From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 90, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedObjective To describe findings from an external quality assessment programme involving laboratories in Africa that routinely investigate epidemic-prone diseases. Methods Beginning in 2002, the Regional Office for...
- 6From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 90, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAmerican orthopaedic surgeons are spending approximately US$ 2 billion per year in unnecessary health care. A study published last month in the American Journal of Orthopaedics found that around one quarter of the...
- 7From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 90, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedObjective To determine how data on water source quality affect assessments of progress towards the 2015 Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target on access to safe drinking-water. Metheds Data from five countries on...
- 8From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 90, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedA new agreement signed last month will make low-cost HIV drugs more accessible in developing countries. Indian antiretrovirals manufacturer, Emcure Pharmaceuticals, announced last month that it has joined the Medicines...
- 9From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 90, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedShortages of essential medicines, among them generic injectable chemotherapy agents, are causing increasing concern in the United States of America (USA). (1,2) However, the problem is far wider, affecting other classes...
- 10From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 90, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed19-22 March: 1st World Congress on Healthy Ageing, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia http://www. healthyageingcongress.com 22 March: World Water Day http://www.unwater.org/worldwaterday/ 24 March: World Tuberculosis Day...
- 11From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 90, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedObjective To report the rates of mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and the coverage of interventions designed to prevent such transmission, in KwaZulu-Natal. Methods...
- 12From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 90, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedWith the ever-expanding geographic reach and disease burden of the current cholera pandemic, as well as alarming fatality rates in newly affected regions, it is apparent that global cholera prevention strategies are...
- 13From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 90, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedObjective To develop two practical methods for measuring the affordability of medicines in developing countries. Methods The proposed methods--catastrophic and impoverishment methods--rely on easily accessible...
- 14From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 90, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedPrivacy of the doctor-patient relationship is at the heart of good health care. How do health systems protect patient privacy in the digital age? WHO's Global Observatory for eHealth set out to answer that question by...
- 15From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 90, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedBackground Surgical approaches are receiving increasing attention as a way to solve many global public health problems. The publication of the Disease Control Priorities monograph initiated discussions of the...
- 16From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 90, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAbout 20 million babies weighing less than 2500 g are born worldwide each year, 96.5% of them in developing countries. These babies are at high risk of infectious disease, developmental delay and death during infancy...
- 17From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 90, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedObjective To assess the feasibility of using birth attendants instead of bereaved mothers as perinatal verbal autopsy respondents. Methods Verbal autopsy interviews for early neonatal deaths and stillbirths were...
- 18From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 90, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedPeople who rate their health as "excellent" are much more likely to live longer. While it is likely that these people have healthier lifestyles, a study published in PLoS ONE last month has found that the correlation...
- 19From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 90, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedObjective To estimate the global burden of cholera using population-based incidence data and reports. Methods Countries with a recent history of cholera were classified as endemic or non-endemic, depending on whether...
- 20From: Bulletin of the World Health Organization. (Vol. 90, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedLike many Nigerians, Betty Anyanwu-Akeredolu believed breast cancer was a "white woman's disease" something that could never happen to her. So when she felt a lump in her breast in 1997, she reacted as many of her...