Charles Larson and colleagues find that 23 months into a national campaign to scale up zinc treatment for diarrhea in children under age 5 years, only 10% of children with diarrhea in rural areas and 20%-25% in urban/municipal areas were getting the treatment.
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David Henry and colleagues examine compliance with new disclosure requirements of Medicines Australia, the pharmaceutical industry representative body, and argue that they fall short and instead more comprehensive reporting standards are needed.
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In the fifth in a series of articles on packages of care for mental disorders in low- and middle-income countries, Martin Prince and colleagues discuss the treatment of dementia.
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In a recent PLoS Medicine article, Chand Khanna and colleagues described the work of the Comparative Oncology Trials Consortium (COTC), which provides infrastructure and resources to integrate naturally occurring dog cancer models into the development of new human cancer drugs, devices, and imaging techniques. A selection of the media coverage this article received is below:
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Gastrointestinal infections, spread via contaminated food or
drinking-water, or from person to person due to poor hygiene, can
cause severe diarrhea, which may be life-threatening. The
WHO site on
diarrhea provides general information on diarrheal disease
and news about programs aimed at decreasing the spread of
gastrointestinal infections. The site also contains technical
documents detailing vaccine research, water-related diseases, and
the WHO Global Salm-Surv, a network aimed at enhancing countries'
capacity to detect, respond to, and prevent foodborne
infections.
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