The Ohio American College of Emergency Physicians has named Dr. Michael Dick the Emergency Medicine Physician of the Year. Dr. Dick is medical director.
Twenty years of soil-transmitted helminths and schistosome infection control in Ethiopia
Soil-transmitted helminths and schistosomiasis are the most prevalent neglected tropical diseases. In Ethiopia alone they infect approximately 36 million and 5 million individuals respectively. Ethiopia has set ambitious targets of elimination. A new systematic review analyses the national progress toward these over the past 20 years.
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Soil-transmitted helminths and Schistosomiasis
Soil-transmitted helminths (STH) and schistosomiasis (SCH) are the most widespread neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) globally, with 1.5 billion and 240 million individuals estimated to be infected worldwide. In Ethiopia, 36 million and 5 million individuals are currently infected with STH and SCH. STH collectively refers to roundworm (A
Addressing maternal and child health in Ethiopia
May 5, 2021 – Every minute, 21 children under the age of five die around the world, and every two minutes a woman dies in childbirth. Most of the deaths are preventable, according to Grace Chan of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Boston Children’s Hospital.
Although there have been significant reductions in maternal and child deaths over the past few decades, the numbers are still stubbornly high in low- and middle-income countries around the globe. Chan, assistant professor in the Department of Epidemiology, leads a program called HaSET which means “happiness” in Amharic that aims to address the problem in Ethiopia. HaSET is a cross-institutional collaboration between the Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI), Saint Paul’s Hospital Millennium Medical College (SPHMMC) in Addis Ababa, and the Harvard Chan School. Chan spoke about HaSET’s work and future plans at a launch event held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
4 For example, the American Diabetes Association and American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists recommend the use of metformin as first-line treatment for type 2 diabetes mellitus and prediabetes to prevent progression of the disease. It has been reported that metformin is a pharmacological cause of vitamin B deficiencies in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus which leads to long-term deleterious neurological and hematological effects.
Vitamin B
12 is a water-soluble vitamin that plays a fundamental role in DNA synthesis, optimal hemopoiesis, and neurological function. In the human body, vitamin B
12 is converted enzymatically into its two coenzyme forms, methylcobalamin and adenosylcobalamin.
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