Oxygen therapy for children
Every year, over 5.9 million children die, mostly from preventable or easily treatable diseases, and more than 95% of those deaths occur in developing countries. Pneumonia is the ...
Articles
The prevalence of hypoxaemia among ill children in developing countries: a systematic review
The fourth Millennium Development Goal has concentrated efforts on addressing priority areas for improving worldwide child survival, with the aim of reducing national child mortality rates by two-thirds between 1990 and ...
Nutritional Support in Clinical Care
Substantial body of evidence indicates that medical and elective surgical patients who have evidence of malnutrition suffer greater levels of morbidity and mortality with those who have adequate nutritional reserve ...
Nurturing care for early childhood development: a framework for helping children survive and thrive to transform health and human potential published by WHO
New WHO framework on nurturing care for early childhood development: Overview The Nurturing care for early childhood development: a framework for helping children survive and thrive to transform health and human ...
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Important call for action: Chikungunya Outbreak.
Researchers in Brazil want to share that there have been 40 confirmed deaths from Chikungunya in Fortaleza. This is a significant increase in both mortality ...
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BE PART OF GLOBAL HEALTH TRIALS! Join the discussion here
One of the reasons members say that they love Global Health Trials is that all the information on the site comes from other researchers who ...
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Introduce yourself here!
Hi everyone, this new group is a place for new members to introduce themselves in the community. Please post to introduce yourself and let others ...
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Soft launch - feedback
Hi, It is great to see people are already finding this site. So far we have only soft-launched, allowing people to find the pages but ...
Welcome to REDe! Tell us what you need in your area
Bienvenidos a REDE. Esperamos poder trabajar juntos en crear una red integrada que unira a la comunidad cientifica y ayudara a mejorar las capacidades para ...
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Diseases can be tracked better and faster with new tech
Advances in technology based on mobile phones and genetic sequencing have improved tracking of infectious disease outbreaks helping to prevent epidemics from emerging. This SciDev.net ...
UK Law Passes Sales of HIV Home Tests Before They Exist
In an attempt to target the 25,000 undiagnosed HIV cases in Great Britain, lawmakers have made it legal to buy HIV tests over the counter ...
News
Get training on how to manage medical emergencies with new free Life-Saving Instruction for Emergencies (LIFE) app, certificate and CPD credit also included
LIFE is a 3D simulation training app for smartphones that teaches healthcare workers how to manage medical emergencies using game-like training techniques to reinforce the key steps that need to be performed in order to save lives. Read more
First 1000 days of life - INTERGROWTH-21st Standards highlighted in news article
Parents have the power to set their baby up for life
New article highlights INTERGROWTH-21st Standards and role maternal health has on fetal and infant growth in first 1000 days of life. Read more
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The COAST trial aims to provide the relevant evidence for policy makers and health services by evaluating key elements of an integrated management strategy in African hospitals on the basis of clinical effectiveness and costs.
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