Historical perspective: Revisiting the St. Lucia Project, a multi-year comparison trial of schistosomiasis control strategies

Schistosomiasis. The St Lucia project

social hygienists, technocrats, and, to a more limited extent, physicians and medical scientists who wished to include syphilis as a part of legitimate practice. While it falls short of being a complete analysis of the social and medical aspects ofvenereal diseases, and skims rather lightly over the recent period, this is a model of how the study of a particular group can be used to illuminate ...

Prehospital and interhospital delay in the treatment of patients with acute myocardial infarction with ST segment elevation and strategies to improve it from the perspective of the process owners: The importance of time

Introduction: Fibrinolytic drugs are one of the important strategies for the treatment of patients with acute myocardial infarction with ST segment elevation, especially in small centers. This study was conducted with the aim of evaluating the distance with the global standard for fibrinolytic treatment and the viewpoints of experts in this regard. Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional st...

Revisiting Quotes from Educational Perspective: An Inquiry into the Multifarious Applications of Grand Quotes in English Language Pedagogy

Effect of education based on the theory of self-efficacy and health literacy strategies on exclusive breastfeeding: A randomized clinical trial

Introduction: All infants should be exclusively breastfed until the age of six months. In this way, the aim of this project was to investigate the effect of education based on the theory of self-efficacy and health literacy on exclusive breastfeeding in pregnant women referred to health centers of Mashhad in 2015. Materials and Methods: In this randomized clinical trial, 90 nulliparous women wi...

Schistosomiasis in America

Schistosomes are parasitic flatworms that cause schistosomiasis, a Neglected Tropical Disease affecting at least 249 million people worldwide. It is the most important waterborne disease in America introduced to this continent during the time of the African slave trade. Of the seven species that infect humans, only Schistosoma mansoni is present in America. Schistosomiasis is endemic in Brazil,...