Cheap antibiotic to save childrenâs lives
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In an article published in the Lancet, investigators report how they slashed the death rate of children infected with AIDS by nearly half using a common, cheap antibiotic drug.
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MONDAY, Oct. 22 (HealthDay News) -- Millions of childrens lives could be saved by a coordinated global effort to improve nutrition and provide clean water, better sanitation and cleaner household fuels in underdeveloped countries, a new study finds.
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LONDON -- The first affordable combination anti-malarial drug tailored for children will soon be available across Africa, potentially saving millions of lives, the nonprofit organization and the pharmaceuticals giant who worked to develop it said Thursday.
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Scientists believe they may have found a way to stop the problem of bacteria becoming resistant to drug treatments.
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Simple adherence to basic medical   treatment guidelines would save thousands of lives and $1.35   billion a year in medical costs, according to a large analysis   of data from 260 hospitals.
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For the first time, researchers say, a vaccine against malaria has shown that it can save children from infection or death.
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A vaccine against virulent bacterial meningitis could save the lives of nearly 3,000 people over the next decade, at the cost of more than $1 million a life.
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British researchers working in an East African village say that a single dose of an antibiotic appears to stop infections that cause trachoma, the world&#39;s leading preventable cause of blindness.
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NEW YORK  - The United Nations (news - web sites)&#39; Children&#39;s Fund (UNICEF (news - web sites)) hailed a study done in Zambia on a cheap, common antibiotic that greatly reduces the death rate among children with the AIDS (news - web sites) virus as &quot;a
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A common antibiotic prescribed for 50 years to treat everything from strep throat to syphilis dramatically increases the risk of cardiac arrest, especially when taken with certain newer, popular drugs, a study found.
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If a healthy heart and smaller waistline aren&#39;t incentive enough for kids to eat healthy foods, maybe a bracelet or key chain will do the trick.
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For the first time, researchers say, a vaccine against malaria has shown that it can save children from infection and death. The vaccine, tested on thousands of children in Mozambique, hardly performed perfectly
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A cheap, easy-to-use drug that prevents bleeding after childbirth could help to save the lives of thousands of women in poor countries, researchers said on Friday.
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An antibiotic-resistant germ is increasingly causing skin infections and pneumonia in otherwise healthy children and adults.
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Bacterial infections of the blood, not  malaria, may be the biggest killer of children in sub-Saharan  Africa and many of the deaths could be prevented by simple  vaccinations, researchers said on Wednesday.
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A cheap, easy-to-use drug that prevents  bleeding after childbirth could help to save the lives of  thousands of women in poor countries, researchers said on  Friday.
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A cheap antibiotic drug has almost halved the rate of AIDS-related deaths in African children, reveals a new study. The antibiotic - co-trimoxazole - does not combat HIV but it prevents secondary infections