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Co-occurrence of neurocysticercosis and taeniasis within communities of northern Peru: implications for anthelminthic treatment strategies
Get PDFNeurocysticercosis (NCC), a central nervous system (CNS) infection with Taenia solium (pork tapeworm), is a leading infectious cause of epilepsy in endemic areas. Treating T. solium taeniasis with anthelminthic medications (AHMs) like niclosamide or praziquantel (PZQ) is essential to prevent NCC. However, co-infections of taeniasis with viable NCC, the presence of living CNS cysts, impose a risk of neurological adverse events with PZQ, complicating treatment decisions. The availability and type of AHMs and lack of feasible diagnostic methods for NCC in community settings is a major challenge in informing anthelminthic treatment decisions, warranting exploration of NCC prevalence among people with taeniasis. This study aimed to describe the prevalence of taeniasis in screened communities and the prevalence of NCC, along with key characteristics, among people with confirmed taeniasis from northern Peru
Adopting the blue zones lifestyle: the new solution to diabetes & prolonging life longevity
Get PDFThis research encompasses the influence of the Blue Zones Project & Lifestyle as a means for blood glucose control & non-pharmacologic management for Type II Diabetes with added benefits of improving quality of life
Mental hygiene, a challenge to public health nursing
Get PDFThe Challenge to Public Health Nursing is to aid in the prevention of and the ability to deal with mental and nervous diseases. For too long have we been willing and desirous of thinking that physical and mental health were two separate and entirely different things that one must be stressed, while the other can be more or less ignored. Too long have we been willing to nurse a diseased organ and neglect the mental reaction created in that individual because of illness. Too long have we emphasized the physical and neglected the mental. In medicine, there is now the realization that these two phases of health, or of sickness, can no longer be separated--physical well-being is dependent on mental well-being and vice versa
The correlation of the departments of the hospital
Get PDFToday the hospital has a fourfold work. Although all of the work surrounds the first ideal, care of the patient, the hospital may also be considered a school as within its walls doctors, inÂterns, nurses, medical students, laboratory technicians, and others are being taught their part in helping the patient. This paper provides an overview of various departments within the hospital
Correlation of health work in schools and survey of University Health service
Get PDFAs is set forth by the National Education Association Committee on the Reorganization of Secondary Schools, we find the first objective in education is health. Various meanings of the term health education have been presented but at this present time the trend is to think of health education as knowledge which will help the child to live a better life
Tuberculosis, a scientific problem
Get PDFIt has been interesting to note in studying this particular disease of mankind the rapid progress made in developing methods of its control. In reviewing the work of those men who worked untiringly to discover the cause of tuberculosis and some method of control we pause and pay tribute to them. Most of the science we learn today represents the accumulation of discoveries painstakingly explored by pioneers. These pioneers left theories and facts that enabled the present day explorer in science to reach new facts and conclusions that are valuable. By retraveling some of the trails with these pioneers in the field and obtaining a historical viewpoint we will be able to appreciate more truly their struggles and work