To Make the Water Safer

Empowering Communities to Make Pregnancy Safer: An Intervention in Rural Andhra Pradesh Empowering Communities to Make Pregnancy Safer

42 Dipa Sinha This report is the result of a project entitled " Safe Motherhood through Community Mobilisation, " undertaken as part of the Health and Population Innovation Fellowship (HPIF) awarded to the author in 2004. The HPIF programme is administered by the Population Council, New Delhi and is a continuation of the MacArthur Foundation's Fund for Leadership Development (FLD) fellowship pr...

How to make tonsillectomy a safer procedure: the anaesthetist's view.

Anaesthetists use specific drugs peri-operatively to try to decrease the incidence and severity of postoperative pain and of postoperative nausea and vomiting. These drugs are usually administered pre-operatively with the premedication, or intra-operatively when the patient is still anaesthetised. The aim of this approach is to prevent the occurrence of intolerable pain or to avoid any nausea o...

The Next Wave of Hospital Innovation to Make Patients Safer

Exploiting common genetic variation to make anticoagulation safer.

Strategies to Make Ramadan Fasting Safer in Type 2 Diabetics

Ramadan is the holy month for Muslims whereby they fast from predawn to after sunset and is observed by all healthy Muslim adults as well as a large population of type 2 diabetic Muslims.To determine the comparative effectiveness of various strategies that have been used for type 2 diabetic Muslim who fast during Ramadan.A systematic review and network meta-analysis of randomized controlled stu...