Test for latent TB in foreign adoptees.
Twenty-one percent of internationally adopted children demonstrated evidence of latent tuberculosis infection on their first tuberculin skin test, according to results from a single-center study. And the rate of latent TB infection in those retested at least 3 months after a second tuberculin skin test (TST) was...

U.S. global HIV prevention policy: still time to get it right.
Over the summer, the United States strongly recommitted itself to fighting AIDS in the developing world. After months of wrangling earlier in the year, President Bush and congressional conservatives found a way to agree with congressional progressives on legislation renewing the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). The...

Events 2008.
EVENTS 2008 28 Oct NZNO Nurses for Children and Young People Section Paihia Satellite Day, Paediatric Society Conference www.confer.co.nz 29-31 Oct 18th Hospice New Zealand Palliative Care Conference Palmerston North www.hospice.org.nz 5-7 Nov Surgical Nurses Conference Christchurch www.surgical2008.co.nz or email: rachel@conference.co.nz 8 Nov NZNO New Zealand Fligth Nurse Association...

The miracle of sunlight therapy.
* * * In the Holy Bible, our Lord God created light on the fourth day. In Genesis 1:14-18 we see the following verses: "And God said, Let there be light in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night, and let them...

Phenol ammonium sulphate basic fuchsin staining of sputum in pot for the detection of acid-fast bacilli.
Background & objectives: Improper practices of making direct smears of sputum for detection of acid-fast bacilli (AFB) and of disposing sputum cups are hazardous. The present study was undertaken with the objective to stain sputum samples in their containers by 'phenol (10%) ammonium sulphate (4%) basic fuchsin (2%) solution'...

People are people: thirty-two movies later, that's all he's learned.
After having watched 32 international movies over 10 days during the Montreal Film Festival, where I was a member of the Ecumenical Jury, I came away with only the most banal observation: People are people, everywhere on the planet. Even the places where they live are similar:...

Research issues in HIV/AIDS.
Research issues in HIV/AIDS, Raghunath D, Durga Rao C, editors, Sir Dorabji Tara Symposium Series, Vol. 7 (Tata McGraw-Hill Publishing Co. Ltd., New Delhi). 2007.410 pages. Price: not mentioned. ISBN 978-0-07-065674-1 HIV, a deadly virus, has devastated some of the developed as well as developing countries, with...

Chronic conditions now top killers worldwide.
Chronic conditions such as heart disease and stroke are now the biggest killers worldwide, signifying the shift of global disease burden away from communicable diseases, the World Health Organization said in its annual international health statistics report. The WHO added that of the eight leading causes of...

Synergism between natural products and antibiotics against infectious diseases.
Abstract Antibiotics have been effective in treating infectious diseases, but resistance to these drugs has led to the emergence of new and the reemergence of old infectious diseases, One strategy employed to overcome these resistance mechanisms is the use of combination of drugs, such as [beta]-lactams together...

MRSA infections observed during anti-TNF treatment.
PARIS -- Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections have been reported for the first time in patients with rheumatoid arthritis being treated with tumor necrosis factor inhibitors. In a poster presented at the annual European Congress of Rheumatology, Dr. Jack Lichtenstein noted that he had observed that several of...