NIH-funded study to focus on newborns affected by opioids
IThe National Institutes of Health is funding a new study to evaluate treatment options for newborns with opioid withdrawal syndrome, a condition caused by exposure to opioids during pregnancy. Currently, health care providers in the United States...
WHO scales up response to plague in Madagascar
WHO is rapidly scaling up its response to an outbreak of plague in Madagascar that has spread to the capital and port towns, infecting more than 100 people in just a few weeks.
CDC Is Deactivating the Emergency Operations Center for the Zika Response
CDC is deactivating its emergency response for Zika virus (Zika) to transition efforts to normal program operations on September 29, 2017. On January 22, 2016, CDC activated its Emergency Operations Center (EOC) in response to the devastating effects...
WHO recommends large-scale deworming to improve children’s health and nutrition
Periodic deworming programmes with a single-tablet treatment can drastically reduce the suffering of those infected with parasitic intestinal worms and protect the 1.5 billion people currently estimated to be at risk.
Disease resistance successfully spread from modified to wild mosquitoes
Anopheles gambiae mosquito being injected with hemolymph for malaria...
New study shows Tdap vaccination during pregnancy can prevent whooping cough in babies
A new CDC study on September 28, published in Clinical Infectious Diseases reported that vaccination with whooping cough vaccine, Tdap, during the third trimester of pregnancy prevented more than three out of four (78 percent) cases of whooping cough...
UN health agency recommends large-scale deworming to improve children’s health
A child in Honduras being dewormed.
Some 25 million unsafe abortions occur each year, UN health agency warns
Lao PDR to Improve Health and Nutrition for Mothers and Children, with World Bank Support
The World Bank is strengthening support to a project that is expected to improve the health of more than one million people across 14 provinces in Lao PDR.
Amid cholera outbreak in north-east Nigeria, UN steps up aid, warns pregnant women most vulnerable
New patient being admitted and washed with chlorinated water in the cholera treatment...
