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 Of life and death

WOMEN face a great risk to their own health during pregnancy. A joint study conducted by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization highlights the normally

Publication Date: 
29/06/1996
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Maternal Health, UNICEF, WHO
India

 Lying in ambush

The contagious TB bacillus, present in a state of dormancy in many of us, is raising its ugly head again, upsetting all the currently practised modes of stopping it

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29/06/1996
Rakesh Kalshian
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Tuberculosis, WHO
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 Under the lens

Mycobacteria make daunting subjects for study. In contrast to the more commonly used organism for molecular biological research, the E Coli, which produces a visible colony in about eight hours,

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29/06/1996
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 A tale of two treatments

In the treatment of TB, the intensive periods under standard regimen (SR) and shorter course chemotherapy (SCC) remain constant at two months, after which the patient turns sputum negative. The

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29/06/1996
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 Ineffective alternative

Besides BCG vaccination, another preventive control measure practised widely in North America but largely ignored in developing countries, is isoniazid preventive therapy (IPT). Unfortunately, the

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29/06/1996
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Health

 UNITED NATIONS

It has come off. Finally, the much awaited and much debated food-for-oil deal was agreed upon between Iraq and the UN recently. While the accord will take some burden off the Iraqi people,

Publication Date: 
29/06/1996
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Small Pox, WHO
India

 The second coming

Claims of successful regimes go flying out of the window as malaria and TB, aided by fresh drug resistant traits, play havoc across boundaries

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29/06/1996
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 Woes of the world

It is mostly the preventable diseases which lead to fatal maladies due to negligence that hold our lives in stake, reveals the 1994 WHO report

Publication Date: 
14/06/1996
Piya Kochhar
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Infectious Diseases, WHO
Environment

 Net protection

THE simple shield of a net soaked in insecticide could save thousands of children from becoming targets of malarial carriers, reveals a study backed by the World Health Organization (WHO), the

Publication Date: 
14/05/1996
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Malaria, Children, UNDP, WHO, World Bank
Environment

 Malady menace

TUBERCULOSIS (TB) germs are working quietly and speedily with single-minded devotion to ensnare as many humans in their killing net as possible. This is the horrific future as revealed by the

Publication Date: 
29/04/1996
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Tuberculosis, WHO

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