Monday, October 27, 2008
Rotavirus vaccines cut diarrhea sickness in United States
Three reports presented to a meeting of infectious disease specialists showed the benefits of the vaccine, which prevents the most common cause of severe diarrhea. In one report, Irini Daskalaki of Drexel University College of Medicine reported that hospitals in North Philadelphia had seen a 70 percent drop in rotavirus-associated hospitalizations since rotavirus vaccinations began in 2006.
The number of babies aged 6 to 11 months admitted to the hospital with rotavirus plummeted by 94 percent, Daskalaki told a meeting of the American Society of Microbiology and the Infectious Diseases Society of America.
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Friday, November 30, 2007
Kashmir's orphans and wounded psyche
BOTH the direct and indirect consequences of conflict on children or youth of the valley have taken a heavy toll on their academic excellence. Imagine the psyche of a student who gets questioned, frisked and undergoes scores of other sorts of harassments almost on a regular basis. Imagine a student's inclination towards his studies when he witnesses bomb blasts, cross-firing incidents, grenade attacks and land-mine explosions occurring around him; imagine his eagerness for his studies when his father, brother, sister or any other close relative gets beaten in front of him. Worse still; imagine his craving for studies when his father or brother gets killed in front of him or for that matter his sister or mother gets molested or raped in front of him.
"The most pronounced impact is psychological. In a society where children continue to witness, experience and hear of killings and atrocities, and are exposed to physical and emotional violence, they suffer from various psychosomatic and psychiatric ailments. In the Kashmir region, 57.38 per cent of the children have become fearful, 55.36 per cent suffer from depression, and 54.25 per cent cannot sleep", observes Balraj Puri, Director Institute of Jammu and Kashmir Affairs, in his study "Young Victims of Militancy" which appeared in Frontline July 30- August 12, 2005.
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Article taken from the issue:30 Nov,2007
Labels: children, emotional stress, jammu, Jammu and Kashmir, kashmir, kashmir news, orphans, phsycologist, physical voilence
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