Diarrhea

Routine Vaccination Solutions for Nigeria Will Save Lives and Money

Tom Murphy | Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: Dr Orin Levine, Pneumonia, Diarrhea, International Vaccine Access Center, Johns Hopkins, Vaccination, Ivac, Nigeria, Orin Levine, Routine Vaccines, Gavi, Vaccines, Vaccines Africa, Vaccines Nigeria, Impact News
Tom Murphy

Nigeria is home to one out of every eight child deaths worldwide, and the Decade of Vaccines Economics projects 90 percent vaccine coverage can save 600,000 lives and $17 billion in Nigeria over the next 10 years.

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Good Things Come in Different-Sized Packages

Dr. Orin Levine | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Polio, Expanded Programme on Immunization, Measles, Unicef, Diarrhea, Pneumonia, Ivac, GAVI Alliance, World Health Organization, Vaccines, Project Optimize, Video, Impact News
Dr. Orin Levine

Decisions around vaccine container size and type -- whether single-dose vial, multi-dose container or pre-filled syringe -- have important implications for a variety of stakeholders.

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Global Motherhood: Perils And Promise In Ghana

Dr. Orin Levine | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Child Mortality, Ghana Children, Pneumonia, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Diarrhea, Africa, Greatest-Person-of-the-Day, Ghana, Global Motherhood, Immunization, Infant Mortality, Parents, Ivac, Vaccines, Home News
Dr. Orin Levine

In the United States, we can practically start planning our kids' birthdays from the day they come home from the hospital; deaths in childhood are quite rare. In Ghana, though, you can't take a child's fifth birthday for granted.

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First Steps Toward the Last Mile in Nigeria

Dr. Orin Levine | Posted 04.13.2012

Read More: Nigeria, Ivac, Immunization, Diarrhea, Pneumonia, Parents, Vaccines, Meningitis, Polio, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Diphtheria, Tetanus, NIgeria Vaccine Summit, Orin Levine, Pertussis, Impact News
Dr. Orin Levine

Likewise, as one of only three remaining countries in the world with endemic polio transmission, they have recently ramped up efforts to eradicate polio from the country, and thereby, help rid it from the entire world.

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Progress That Demands Performance

Dr. Orin Levine | Posted 11.27.2011

Read More: Rotavirus, Meningitis, GAVI Alliance, Measles, Diarrhea, Pneumonia, International Vaccine Access Center, GAVI Alliance Vaccines, Impact News
Dr. Orin Levine

For someone who has worked diligently for over a decade to accelerate access to new life-saving pneumonia vaccines, announcements like this week's make it all seem worth it.

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Vaccine Group Donates $1 Billion To Provide Shots For Needy Children

AP | Posted 11.27.2011

Read More: Immunization Campaigns, Video, Measles, Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization, Diarrhea, Pneumonia, Immunization, Meningitis A, Vaccines, Impact News

LONDON -- A global health group says it will donate just over $1 billion to immunize children in 37 countries from life-threatening diseases. The Glo...

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Italian Friars Pray Bible Thief Gets The Runs

Posted 10.19.2011

Read More: Michelangelo, Italy, Italian Friars Pray for Diarrhea, San Salvatore Al Monte, Diarrhea, Italian Friars, Tuscany, Montezuma's Revenge, World News

It's often referred to as "Montezuma's revenge," but maybe now it will be known as "Tuscan friars' revenge." An order of Italian friars, angered a...

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I Am a Water Billionaire

Jonathan Lewis | Posted 08.07.2011

Read More: Blue Planet Network, water.org, Water, Economic Development, Wello, Child Mortality, Diarrhea, Lack of Water, Children's Health, Water Crisis, Impact News
Jonathan Lewis

One-sixth of the world's population does not have access to a glass of clean drinking water. If the United States suffered this thirsty fate, 52 million Americans would be without water.

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How the G8 Can Transform Global Health for Children

David J. Olson | Posted 07.23.2011

Read More: G8 Muskoka Initiative, Diarrhea, G8 Summit, Oral Rehydration Therapy, Global Health, Oral Rehydration Salts, Child Mortality, Child Health, Healthy Living Health News, Healthy Living Body, Health Care, Healthy Living News
David J. Olson

In the 21st century, oral rehydration therapy (ORT) -- a simple, cost-effective treatment given at home seems to be on life support.

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Mother Gets Prison Time For Smearing Human Fecal Matter On Daughter's IV Catheter

AP | Posted 06.04.2011

Read More: Emily Beth Mcdonald, Texas, Dell Children's Medical Center, Child Abuse, Fecal Matter, Feces, Diarrhea, Crime, Hospital, Austin, Fever, Antibiotics, Iv, Hidden Camera, Iv Catheter, Austin Texas, Home News

AUSTIN, Texas -- An Austin woman who authorities say was caught on tape smearing human feces on her then-3-year-old daughter's IV catheter was sentenc...

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A Problem Worse Than Cholera

Joseph B. Treaster | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Diarrhea, Public Health, Cholera, Cholera in Haiti, Haiti Cholera, Cholera Epidemic, Home News
Joseph B. Treaster

Cholera and the bigger problem are cousins. Both are forms of diarrhea. But the more common forms of diarrhea are far more widespread and far more deadly.

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WATCH: CNN Airs 'Dumb And Dumber' Diarrhea Scene

Carly Schwartz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fail, Video, Funny Video, Cnn-Fail, Diarrhea, Cnn, Fails, Dumb and Dumber, Comedy News

SCROLL DOWN FOR UPDATES: Why does explosive diarrhea always hit at the most inopportune times? While we can't for the life of us figure out why our...

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Help for the World's Children Affected by HIV/AIDS

Leila Nimatallah | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pediatric Aids, Pneumonia, Diarrhea, Aids, Vaccines, World AIDS Day, HIV Cure, Politics News
Leila Nimatallah

Some would argue that the faces that motivated President George W. Bush's unparalleled investment in AIDS prevention, treatment, and care were the fac...

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The Link Between Irritable Bowel Syndrome and Bacteria

Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Probiotics, Abdomen Pain, Sibo, Ibs, Diarrhea, Hospital, Cedars Sinai, Los Angeles, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Liver, Bacteria, Gi Motility, Small Intestine Bacterial Overgrowth, Toxins, Dr. Braunstein, Los Angeles News
Glenn D. Braunstein, M.D.

Though Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) is among the most common medical problems in the country, it's not a disease you're likely to find celebrities speaking out for.

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Cholera Death Toll Rising In Haiti: Inside Port-Au-Prince's Tent Camps

Dr. Jon LaPook | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Infrastructure, Earthquake Refugees, E.Coli, Diarrhea, Shigella, Ngos, Haiti, Dubique Kobel, Aid, Hospitals, Cholera, Port-Au-Prince, Haiti Earthquake, Salmonella, Clean the World, Health Care, World News
Dr. Jon LaPook

I fear this will become a major disaster. Haitians have no natural immunity to cholera. The incubation period of up to five days lets seemingly healthy but actually infected people travel and spread the disease. This could involve the entire country. I'm praying for a miracle.

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Fresh Flooding In Pakistan Forces Hundreds Of Thousands To Flee

AP / Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pakistan Floods, Al Qaida, Diarrhea, Pakistan, Failed State, Humanitarian Crisis, Food, Flooding, Cholera, Taliban, Un, Medicine, World News

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- The floods tearing through Pakistan's breadbasket have further weakened this already unstable country, inflicting more economic...

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The Four R's: Reading, wRiting, aRithmetic... and Restrooms

Jonathan Greenblatt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Room to Read, Foreign Aid, UN Foundation, United Nations, Kiva, Sanitation, Shell Oil, Philanthropy, Clinton Global Initiative, Mdgs, Morgan Stanley, Care, Diarrhea, Water, Africa, The African Leadership Academy, Hillary Clinton, Latrines, Unicef, Impact News
Jonathan Greenblatt

Sanitation is a basic need that could enable a new destiny for billions of people and it is time to apply the same degree of innovation and ingenuity to this problem that has been brought to bear in other fields.

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Stockholm Water Confab Rings Alarms, Offers Hope

Magda Abu-Fadil | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Stockholm International Water Institute, Sweden, National Geographic, Combating Desertification, Economics of Sanitation, Venice of the North, Pollutants in Water Resources, Sanitation, Canadian, World Water Week, Climate Change, Biodiversity, ITT Corporation, 2010 Stockholm Junior Water Prize, Striking WASH Communication, Earth, Maintaining Ecosystems, University of Maryland, Bbc, Rose George, Toilets, Wastewater Management, Crown Princess Victoria, Human Waste, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Stockholm, Diarrhea, Water, Prof. Rita Colwell, British, Pacific Institute, The Big Necessity, Dr. Peter Gleik, World News
Magda Abu-Fadil

According to freelance journalist Rose George, a child dies from diarrhea -- usually brought on by fecal-contaminated food or water -- every 15 seconds. But human waste can be used to good purpose.

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Turning Water Rights Into Reality

John Sauer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Global Health, Human Rights, Diarrhea, Hygiene, Health, Water, Millennium Development Goals, Global Poverty, Sanitation, World News
John Sauer

Developing countries need to prioritize water as the keystone to development, just as the United States did at the turn of the 20th century.

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As Evidence of Waterborne Diseases in Pakistan's Hardest-Hit Communities Grows, World Vision Says "situation is desperate"

World Vision | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Islamabad, Lower Dir, Diarrhea, Pakistan, Cholera, Humanitarian Aid, Waterborne Disease, World Vision, World News
World Vision

• World Vision opens emergency health clinic in Lower Dir • Growing number of children already reported to have skin diseases, eye infections • ...

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Report from South Asia: Is Universal WASH Access in Reach?

John Sauer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: India, Arsenic, Hygiene, Diarrhea, Water, Bangladesh, Toilets, Children's Health, Sanitation, World News
John Sauer

I've been amazed at how much is happening on the ground. Despite the multitude of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) problems, the issue seems entirely solvable here.

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Meetings, Ministers and the Least Appealing of all Causes

Karl Hofmann | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Politics, Global Health, Children's Health, Diarrhea, Water, Sanitation, Green News
Karl Hofmann

Billions of people worldwide lack access to safe drinking water and sanitation. Improving access not only saves lives, it can also increase education rates, reduce poverty and drive economic growth.

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I Wish I were the Leader of a G-8 Country

Dr. Orin Levine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: G8, Camp Arowhon, Pneumonia, Huntsville, Pace, G8 Summit, World Pneumonia Day, Algonquin Provincial Park, Orin Levine, Seth Godin, Diarrhea, World News
Dr. Orin Levine

I wish that I were the leader of a G-8 country this week. There are two reasons. First, the G-8 is meeting in Huntsville, Ontario, one of my favor...

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From Fear to Hope in Global Health

Dr. Orin Levine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Malaria, Global Health, Maternal Health, Health Care System, Diarrhea, Pneumonia, Nutrition, World News
Dr. Orin Levine

Global health feels different to me these days. It feels like there's been a change recently in the emphasis in global health from "find the SARS ...

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Revealing China's Advances in Child Survival

Dr. Orin Levine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Child Mortality, Millenium Development Goal, Diarrhea, Pneumonia, Child Survival, China, Infant Mortality, World News
Dr. Orin Levine

A report in The Lancet shows that China has made tremendous progress in child survival over the past 20-30 years and that Chinese researchers have done an outstanding job of documenting it.

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