... The University of Texas School of Public Health have found that patients given a travellers' diarrhoea vaccine were significantly less likely to suffer from clinically significant diarrhoea than those ...
... years ago, Dr Mary Estes of Baylor College of Medicine and her colleagues discovered the first viral enterotoxin, rotavirus NSP4, a toxic protein that affects the intestines, causing diarrhoea...
... (UMMS) today announced that a Phase 2 trial of an anti-C. difficile antibody combination treatment in patients with C. difficile Associated Diarrhoea (CDAD) successfully met its primary objective...
Diarrhoea will continue to kill millions of children without research into why treatments aren't reaching the victims, experts have warned.
... medical university Karolinska Institutet now shows that almost half a billion cases of child diarrhoea a year could be treated if they all received treatment equal to the best standards in their home ...
... use in gastroesophageal reflux disease. Lansoprazole uncommonly causes chronic watery diarrhoea unresponsive to conventional medication as a symptom of collagenous colitis. This association has ...
... -like fibres called 'pili' or 'fimbriae' on the surface of bacteria that cause traveller's diarrhoea. The findings, appear in the June issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and ...
A Nicaraguan study has found that a pentavalent rotavirus vaccine is effective at reducing the risk of severe diarrhoea in children.
Kefir, one of the world's oldest 'health' drinks, did little to prevent diarrhoea in young children being treated with antibiotics, say researchers at Georgetown University Medical Centre (GUMC), who ...
... taking ipilimumab and the oral steroid budesonide to reduce side effects did not have less diarrhoea, a known side effect of ipilimumab, according to results of a phase II trial published in Clinical ...
Despite evidence that low-cost diarrhoea treatments such as lower osmolarity oral rehydration salts (ORS) and zinc supplements could drastically reduce the number of deaths among children, little ...
Deaths from diarrhoea in over-five-year-olds far exceed established estimates, according to a new study.
... smeared the UV lotion under the seats of 20 toilets and commodes being used by patients with diarrhoea at a hospital in Winnipeg. Seven of these patients had C. difficile infection, while 13 others ...
... for oral rehydration solution to prevent dehydration in children with acute vomiting and diarrhoea, according to advice published in the May issue of Archives of Disease in Childhood. Oral rehydration ...
... resistant to many disinfectants and antiseptics, including alcohol hand gel.
Symptoms include diarrhoea, nausea, abdominal pain, loss of appetite, fever, bowel inflammation and possible perforation, ...
