A huge increase in counterfeit drugs in the U.S. is posing a serious threat to public safety, especially in developing countries, medical journal The Lancet says.
... UN study of internationally funded training programmes in biotechnology and biosafety warns that as many as 100 developing countries are unprepared to effectively manage and monitor the use of modern ...
Patients in developing countries often need to have X-ray examinations repeated so that doctors ... involving thousands of patients in 45 hospitals and 12 countries of Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe.
A group of students from The University of Nottingham have designed an off-road wheelchair to help disabled people cope with rough terrain in developing countries.
... schemes.
Said Ombelet: "A universally accessible treatment service is impossible in most developing countries, but a start can be made by integrating low cost treatments into existing family health ...
A European society has launched a special task force to help provide low-cost fertility treatment for developing countries.
A electrotechnology student has devised an ECG machine that runs on solar energy. This especially lends itself to use in developing countries or troubled areas.
... to incorporate into HIV care programs, the first chronic care models to emerge in many developing countries. Because patients with HIV are at risk for TB throughout life, activities should be ongoing ...
Canada has significantly boosted its supply of diagnostic scanners since 2003 but the number still lags behind other developed countries.
(PhysOrg.com) -- Impatient online computer gamers have sparked a new industry in developing countries - by paying fellow gamers real cash in return for financial help in the virtual world.
Developing countries that want the benefits of cutting-edge health care possibilities based on the genetic variation of individual citizens and sub-populations need to foster the new science at home, ...
... as the gold standard routine HPV DNA test, and initially created by Professor Lorincz for use in developed countries). It requires only a small area (approximately 25cm x 30cm) of clean bench-top ...
... There is a marked geographical variation in case fatality rates, which are highest in developing countries and lowest in developed ones. Further, women in poor- and middle-income nations generally are ...
... is used in tests to detect lethal infectious diseases responsible for half of all deaths in developing countries.
George Whitesides and colleagues at Harvard University, US, say the plasma obtained ...
... rate barely budged between 2000 and 2005, causing the United States to slip further behind other developed countries despite spending more on healthcare, according to a report released Wednesday.
