Cholera lives in many of the world's water sources, but it's most dangerous when it has an environment in which there are many people among whom it can spread. The Ganges River happens to be one of the most ancient locations of human population density, and so it was long, long ago ...
It is one of the well known naturopathic treatments used widely in ancient cultures including India, Egypt, China, and other Asian countries. Many studies were conducted to understand the physiological and therapeutic effects of hydrotherapy on different organs, but the effect of hydrotherapy was not...
31-34]. Secondary trigeminal neuralgia has been reported due to impingement of the nerve by destruction of bony structures, as well as vascular inflammation and damage resulting in facial pain that can be chronic and poorly responsive to treatment [35,36]. Additionally...
The Global Programme to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis (GPELF) was launched in response to the call proposed at the 50th World Health Assembly. The goal of the GPELF is to ensure that all the countries where the disease is endemic would have been transmi
This results in administering anti-parasitic drugs only to parasitized animals without considering appropriate treatments for the environmental stages. When anti-parasitic drug concentrations are inadequate, reinfestations can occur, and the repeated application of certain drugs can accelerate resistance to ...
A doctor diagnoses lung cancer by performing imaging tests, such as a CT scan; testing coughed-up sputum; and a lung biopsy. Treatment is based on the extent of the lung cancer, and whether it has spread to other parts of the body. Treatments range from surgery, chemotherapy and radiation...
Identification of the antischistosomal activity of the artemisinins constituted the impetus for investigating the properties of natural products with the aim of developing new treatments for various parasitic diseases. Although this progress represents a landmark in the advance towards completely new drugs...
Management requires a multidisciplinary approach. Keratocysts are treated by surgical removal. Surgery for BBCs is indicated when the number of lesions is limited; other treatments include laser ablation, photodynamic therapy and topical chemotherapy. Radiotherapy should be avoided. Vitamin A analogs may ...
Cleaning seeds provided a considerable reduction (ca. 50%) in the content of mycotoxins, but overall the North European grains had considerably more mycotoxins compared to South American grains even after cleaning. Weather conditions, cultivation method and post-harvest treatments could explain ...
However, many of these diseases are preventable, and could be eliminated with improved sanitation, vector control, available treatments, and mass drug administration (MDA) campaigns. For the programmatic point of view, the World Health Organization (WHO) classified NTDs into two groups: preventive ...