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Steroids Are No Boon to World’s Poorer Women
Giving steroids to women who are about to give birth prematurely — a standard lifesaving medical practice in richer countries — may be useless or even dangerous in poor countries where most women give birth at home, a major new study has found.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- public health
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US Sets New Protocols for Ebola Health Workers
The United States has tightened guidelines for health workers treating patients with the Ebola virus, calling for new competency training, a buddy system for donning and doffing personal protective equipment, and total coverage of eyes, hair and skin.
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Major step forward in understanding of viruses as scientists unlock exact structure of Hep A virus
Scientists have announced that for the first time, they have determined the precise atomic structure of the Hepatitis A virus.
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Sri Lanka’s Malaria Elimination Efforts a “Spectacular Achievement”
Sri Lanka has remained free of malaria for two years – an accomplishment the Global Health Group (GHG) described as a “spectacular achievement,” during a meeting with President Mahinda Rajapaksa at Temple Trees recently.Dr. Richard Feachem
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OPINION: Ebola: The dark side of globalization
As upcoming goals, the United Nations should enact basic sanitation, healthcare and governance in failed or collapsing states not simply because of moral concerns, but because of our own safety concerns.
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3 Ways Empathy Is Driving Successful Innovations In Health
From human-centered design to the lean startup approach, methods to develop innovative products and services emphasize the importance of understanding what customers really need. Here are some lessons in innovation that social entrepreneurs have learned from empathizing with their customers.
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Why Ebola wasn’t stopped by huge investment in African healthcare
Despite it being nearly six months after the Ebola outbreak was confirmed by the World Health Organisation (WHO), we are still hearing stories of severe shortage of gloves in health facilities in West Africa. Many nurses have been asked to reuse them or merely rub their hands with chlorine after consultations.
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Issues continue to dog the testing of Ebola drugs and vaccines
The fact that no “flexible and innovative protocol” exists for Ebola speaks to the complex practical and ethical issues that surround the use of untested drugs and vaccines in the midst of the explosive spread of a virus that kills more than half the people it infects.
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