Don't rely on drinking wine to prevent traveller's diarrhoea

Travellers' diarrhoea: slow but steady progress.

Strategies to prevent underage drinking.

Alcohol use by underage drinkers is a persistent public health problem in the United States, and alcohol is the most commonly used drug among adolescents. Accordingly, numerous approaches have been developed and studied that aim to prevent underage drinking. Some approaches are school based, involving curricula targeted at preventing alcohol, tobacco, or marijuana use. Other approaches are extr...

Sentinel surveillance for travellers' diarrhoea in primary care

BACKGROUND Travellers' diarrhoea is the most common health problem among international travellers and much of the burden falls on general practitioners. We assessed whether sentinel surveillance based in primary care could be used to monitor changes in the epidemiology of travellers' diarrhoea. METHODS A sentinel surveillance scheme of 30 volunteer general practices distributed throughout Wal...

Parasitic causes of prolonged diarrhoea in travellers - diagnosis and management.

BACKGROUND Prolonged infectious diarrhoea in the returning traveller is generally caused by protozoal and occasionally by helminth parasites. OBJECTIVE This article provides a framework for the diagnosis, management and prevention of the diseases that cause persistent diarrhoea in the traveller. DISCUSSION A large proportion of disease is caused by Giardia lamblia, Cryptosporidium parvum an...

Engaging Communities to Prevent Underage Drinking

Community-based efforts offer broad potential for achieving population-level reductions in alcohol misuse among youth and young adults. A common feature of successful community strategies is reliance on local coalitions to select and fully implement preventive interventions that have been shown to be effective in changing factors that influence risk of youth engaging in alcohol use, including b...