The death toll is more than half a million women a year, according to Unicef, the UN children's emergency fund. Some 70,000 who die are girls and young women aged 15 to 19. Although it is the subject of one of the millennium development goals, the death toll is not going down.
The reasons are multiple, according to Unicef's annual state of the world's children report on maternal and newborn health. "The root cause may lie in women's disadvantaged position in many countries and cultures and in the lack of attention to, and accountability for, women's rights," it says.
The ultimate right to live through the pregnancy is where the doctor steps into the picture or does not.
Washington (dbTechno) - Researchers have come out with some positive news for the future of the meningitis vaccine working on both kids and adults.
Researchers were led by Dr. Lee Harrison of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine as they carried out a study to see how effective the meningitis vaccine actually was.
The study was carried out by looking at cases of pneumococcal meningitis from 1998 through 2005.
After the vaccine was introduced in 2000, they saw a 64% decrease in the rate of the disease popping up.
Adults seem to stop taking vaccines at a certain age, maybe we need to rethink that medically.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif., accompanied by House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer of Md., right, and others, speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2009, after the House passed State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) legislation. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)
WASHINGTON—Making a down payment on President-elect Barack Obama's promise of universal health coverage, the House voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to expand government-sponsored insurance to 4 million more children in working families with income too high to qualify for Medicaid.
Obama said he hoped the Senate acts with the "same sense of urgency so that it can be one of the first measures I sign into law when I am president."
We are reaching a time when all children are covered as an investment in the future of the country.
It focuses on basic good practice before anaesthesia is administered, before a patient is cut open, and before a patient is removed from the operating theatre, and is designed to promote effective teamwork and prevent problems such as infection and unnecessary blood loss.
It was tested in hospitals in Seattle, Toronto, London, Auckland, Amman, New Delhi, Manila and Ifakara, Tanzania.
In total data was collected from 7,688 patients, 3,733 before the checklist was implemented, and 3,955 afterwards.
Saw this story covered on TV, seems very basic, as if thought up by looking at a pilot’s checklist.
The National Institutes of Health study looked at women from the Women's Health Initiative Memory Study, which is a subset of the largest study of hormone replacement therapy. The study found that, overall, women taking the hormones had smaller frontal brain lobes than women who did not follow the treatment.
Let’s not have any jokes about this, Men, as in no wonder my wife is goofy.
A new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association brings hope to people suffering from a debilitating and painful ailment known as fibromyalgia. The researchers haven’t been able to find any cure for this condition so far. However, it appears that antidepressants relieve some of its symptoms, boosting sufferers’ quality of life, study lead author Dr. Winfried Hauser, of Klinikum Saarbrucken in Germany and his colleagues said.
Helps with the fatigue and pain of the condition, sure worth a try for your patients.
Frostbite happens quickly and with little warning. It happens in three stages. The first stage - whitening of the skin. The second stage - the skin turns purple and blisters form. Lastly - gangrene and amputation.
To protect against frostbite, bundle up. Wear a hat, hood, or scarf, and keep fingertips, earlobes, and your nose covered at all times. Wear layers of clothing, and if any clothing gets wet, take it off immediately.
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Born and raised in Minnesota, I know the bite of frostbite, and it is painful and scary too.
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