Sentences with phrase «diarrheal disease at»

For example, a separate study by scientists at the CDC and Haiti's National Public Health Laboratory analyzed patients treated for diarrheal disease at four hospitals in Haiti between April 2012 and March 2013.

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Reproduced from the PATH Resources for Diarrheal Disease Control website at www.eddcontrol.org, [6 November, 2009].

«Meta studies have shown that the controlled grafting of fecal transplantation from healthy donors is a safe and very effective treatment of acute diarrheal diseases caused by the pathogenic bacterium Clostridium difficile,» said Sieglinde Angelberger, gastroenterologist at the University Clinic for Internal Medicine III of the Medical University of Vienna and author of the study: «this was the reason why we applied this therapy for the treatment of patients with chronic intestinal diseases.»

Lead author Zachary Crannell, a graduate student based at Rice's BioScience Research Collaborative, said the disease, usually transmitted through drinking water, accounts for 20 percent of childhood diarrheal deaths in developing countries.

So he and Tahmeed Ahmed from the International Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research in Bangladesh teamed up with Jeffrey Gordon, a microbiologist at Washington University in St. Louis in Missouri, to collect monthly fecal samples from healthy and malnourished Bangladeshi children under 2.

Children with vitamin A deficiency are often deficient in multiple micronutrients and are likely to be anemic, have impaired growth, and be at increased risk of severe morbidity from common childhood infections such as diarrheal diseases and measles.

So I joined a wonderful group at Johns Hopkins to work on diarrheal diseases — in part because I, like anybody who traveled in the outbacks of Asia, was plagued with diarrhea there for months — and it was a breakthrough that occurred at the University of Texas.

Although the IL - 15 plus retinoic acid combination leads to inflammation and tissue damage in those at risk for celiac disease, the authors suggest that for those who are less genetically susceptible, the same combination could help enhance vaccines against several bacterial infections that cause diarrheal diseases.

Mr. Damon's commitment to raise $ 1 million through that group and the OneXOne Foundation in the next year was one of a bundle of pledges aimed at water and sanitation from individuals, charities and companies totalling about $ 400 million (including a $ 200 million pledge by Napo Pharmaceuticals to «complete the clinical development of crofelemer, a drug that has potential to treat pediatric diarrhea, and provide it at cost to partner organizations for distribution in the areas with the highest mortality and morbidity associated with diarrheal diseases.»)

At the same time, 3.5 million children around the world die from acute respiratory and diarrheal disease, most of which could be prevented with access to hand soap and education programs on the importance of hand washing.

Dulu's story is heartbreakingly common in the developing world: 3 billion people survive on diets that lack micronutrients such as Vitamin A and Zinc, and are at increased risk of illness from common infections such as diarrheal disease, which kills nearly 2 million children annually.

So, the message is: At least part of the causes of diarrheal diseases, which claim so many children's lives in poor nations, is easily addressable.