health organization Articles
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Quinine 90 MHz - Case Study
Quinine Quinine is a drug used to treat a variety of conditions, most notably malaria. It is listed as one of the WHO’s (World Health Organization’s) “Essential Medicines”. Figure 1 shows the 1H NMR spectrum of a 250 mM Quinine in CDCl3 measured in a single scan taking 10 seconds to ...
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Performance Evaluation of the Coag-Sense Prothrombin Time (PT)/INR Monitoring System
Introduction Oral anticoagulant therapy (OAT) using warfarin (Coumadin) has surged in recent years due to an increased number of indications and its demonstrated effectiveness. The primary means of monitoring the response to warfarin is the Prothrombin Time (PT) test, which is measured in seconds. The increased use of OAT has led to the development of point-of-care (POC) portable monitoring ...
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Dietary diversity, nutrition status and morbidity of pre-school children in Matungu division, Western Kenya
This cross-sectional survey was to determine dietary diversity, nutrient intake, nutrition status and prevalence of childhood illnesses among pre-school children in Matungu division, Western Kenya. A total of 144 households were arrived at using multistage sampling, structured questionnaires with food frequency tables and 24-hour recalls were administered and anthropometric measurements taken. ...
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Vidar Digitizers Support World Health Organization Childhood Pneumonia - Case Study
In many developing countries throughout the world, infant and child mortality rates are disturbingly high, and acute respiratory infections— in particular pneumonia—are a leading cause of death. As a result, preventing pneumonia is a priority, and the World Health Organization (WHO) and other healthcare institutions are studying a number of vaccines designed to protect against the ...
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Investigation on microbial inactivation and urea decomposition in human urine during thermal storage
The World Health Organization suggests storing human urine for at least 6 months at 20 °C prior to application as fertilizer to reduce the potential health risks from pathogenic organisms. Such a storage condition for human urine, however, not only requires a long period of time and large space but also ignores the risk of nitrogen losses. In this study, human urine underwent thermal ...
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Survival of
Mycobacterium tuberculosis andMycobacterium bovis in human urineTuberculosis is a zoonotic disease that mainly causes respiratory infection. However, it can also infect other organs such as the kidneys and bladder, which can lead to high counts of the organisms in the urine. Introducing urine diversion systems and reuse of the urine in agriculture may introduce new transmission routes for infection, increasing the risk of spread. This study evaluated the ...
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The Network that Makes Seasonal Flu Vaccines Possible
Influenza is constantly mutating. 70 years ago, the World Health Organization set up a surveillance network to protect people from its threat. Making influenza vaccines that can help protect against viruses that threaten human health isn’t a simple process. It requires the cooperation between influenza vaccine manufacturers like Seqirus, and the World Health Organization’s ...
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Inspections: the role of the CARACAL and the Enforcement Forum
Let's start the New Year by informing you about two of major groups that work in collaboration with the European Commission and ECHA, or CARACAL, the Committee of Competent Authorities for REACH and CLP, and the FORUM, or a forum for the exchange of information inspection. The CARACAL was founded in 2004, to change then its name in 2009 in the actual one. The goal of this group is very ...
By Selerant srl
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Important Information Regarding Brentwood & COVID-19
Executive Summary: At this time all Brentwood sites are operational. Our Indian facility reopened production this week, following a shutdown that was mandated by the Indian government. Our workforce is committed to continued support of our customers during the COVID-19 outbreak and our supply stream remains strong. As always we will get through this today, tomorrow, and together. The Novel ...
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Ayurvedic potentials for cellular protection, regeneration and immunomodulation with special reference to resistance against low radiation
The exposure to acute low Linear Energy Transfer (LET) at more than 10 rem or 0.1 Sv due to background radiation, occupation exposure or free radicals appears to be responsible for biological changes that have a health impact on cells, including DNA damage and contribute to the ageing process and to the manifestation of diseases, including cancer. Individuals and subpopulations (cultural groups ...
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Noise in Europe 2014
Noise pollution is a growing environmental concern. It is caused by a varied number of sources and is widely present not only in the busiest urban environments, it is also pervading once natural environments. The adverse effects can be found in the well-being of exposed human populations, in the health and distribution of wildlife on the land and in the sea, in the abilities of our children to ...
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Disinfectants in the Workplace - Essential Employees Exposures
The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the novel coronavirus, known as COVID-19, a global pandemic on March 12, 2020, therefore changing our lives in the process. Around the world, different mitigation strategies have been employed to slow the spread and decrease the risk of exposure to the virus at federal, regional and state government levels. Essential employees are designated as those ...
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Leishmaniasis Vaccine - Case Study
The World Health Organization in its report on Neglected Tropical Diseases has stated that there is overwhelming evidence to show that the burden caused by many of the 17 diseases that affect more than 1 billion people worldwide can be effectively controlled and, in many cases, eliminated or even eradicated. Leishmaniasis caused by Leishmania spp is one such example and poses a grave health risk ...
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New Report Launched by WHO – ‘Health in 2015: from MDGs to SDGs’
The World Health Organization (WHO) has launched a new report analysing global health trends since 2000 and looks at the main challenges that will affect health in the coming 15 years. The report titled ‘Health in 2015: from MDGs to SDGs’ identifies the key drivers of progress in health under the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It lays out actions that countries ...
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Coronavirus Variants: The Delta Variant and the Future Impact of Viral Mutations
If you are fully vaccinated, should you be worried about the impact of COVID-19 variants? No, in fact vaccines have been shown to be highly effective at preventing hospitalizations and deaths from these SARS-CoV-2 variants. While the infamous Delta variant has now been detected in 98 countries and all 50 states, 99% of all COVID-19 deaths and hospitalization cases are unvaccinated, according to ...
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Zika Virus: WHO announces a Public Health Emergency of International Concern
The first meeting of the Emergency Committee (EC) convened by the Director-General under the International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR 2005) regarding clusters of microcephaly cases and other neurologic disorders in some areas affected by Zika virus was held by teleconference on 1 February 2016. According to the Pan American Health Organization the Zika illness is caused by the bite of an ...
By SafetyNow
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Incidence of jaw lesions and activity and gene expression of hepatic P4501A enzymes in mink (Mustela vison) exposed to dietary 2,3,7,8‐tetrachlorodibenzo‐P‐dioxin, 2,3,7,8‐tetrachlorodibenzofuran, and 2,3,4,7,8‐pentachlorodibenzofuran
This study assessed the effects of 2,3,7,8‐tetrachlorodibenzo‐p‐dioxin (TCDD), 2,3,4,7,8‐pentachlorodibenzofuran (PeCDF), and 2,3,7,8 tetrachlorodibenzofuran (TCDF) on the incidence of jaw lesions and on hepatic cytochrome P4501A (CYP1A) endpoints in mink (Mustela vison). Adult female mink were assigned randomly to one of 13 dietary treatments (control and four increasing doses of TCDD, PeCDF, or ...
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Environmental threats to children's health – a global problem
Today's children are exposed to a wide range of environmental threats, whose consequences on health and development may appear early in life, throughout their youth and even later, in adulthood. Health problems linked to environmental hazards are multiplying and becoming more visible due to a rapidly changing environment, rapid population growth, overcrowding, fast industrialisation and ...
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Kato-Katz analysis technique for Soil-Transmitted Helminthiasis (STH)
In last October’s newsletter, Sterlitech announced the availability of kits for performing the Kato-Katz analysis technique for Soil-Transmitted Helminthiasis (STH) in field-based applications, signifying the first time that these kits were available from a source in the United States. Prior to this, the efforts of research groups and health organizations could be hampered by limited ...
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Sustainability science: an ecohealth perspective
Sustainability science is emerging as a transdisciplinary effort to come to grips with the much-needed symbiosis between human activity and the environment. While there is recognition that conventional economic growth must yield to policies that foster sustainable development, this has not yet occurred on any broad scale. Rather, there is clear evidence that the Earth’s ecosystems and landscapes ...
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