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HHS' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality today released a DVD titled "Cross Training Respiratory Extenders for Medical Emergencies (Project XTREME)," to train health care professionals who are not respiratory care specialists to provide basic res |
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FINDINGS: Previous research has shown that minorities have particularly cohesive extended family ties. For this study, UCLA researchers interviewed 58 randomly selected evacuees - mostly low-income African Americans - who relocated from New Orleans to Ho |
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The United Nations World Food Programme has made dramatic
progress in reducing malnutrition in Ethiopia, Sudan and Chad but
the achievements risk being diminished by constantly shifting
security conditions, said WFP Executiv |
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The latest issue of the peer reviewed Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved (JHCPU) addresses the detrimental effects of Hurricane Katrina, on the management of health care in this country and on the continued suffering of many Americans a |
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Four separate papers published in a special Katrina issue of the Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, published today, detail the dramatic prevalence of chronic illness among people most affected by the hurricanes of 2005. |
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SureScripts on Tuesday unveiled a Web site that will allow health care workers to access the prescription information of people who live in areas impacted by natural disasters, the AP/Jackson Clarion-Ledger reports. After an earthquake, hurricane or ot |
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Novartis has delivered 4.7 million treatments of its life-saving anti-malaria medicine, Coartem, to the United Republic of Tanzania, an African country where malaria is the leading cause of death in both children and adults. This delivery is part of a |
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A convoy of trucks contracted by the United Nations World
Food
Programme (WFP) today thrust out of Mogadishu and delivered enough food
to
feed at least 32,000 people driven from their homes by some of the
worst
fighting in the So |
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The United Nations World Food Programme welcomed the Government
of Sudan's expediting the movement of a shipment of 100,000 tons of
cereals
that had been delayed at Port Sudan. There had been a temporary hold on
the release, which someti |
