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New inquiry published in The Lancet finds that
much higher proportions of children with severe pneumonia are treated
correctly if they are allowed to be treated at local, first-level
facilities instead of hospitals.
Since the mid-1990s and the issuing of The Intergrated Management of
Childhood Illness (IMCI) guidelines, it has been suggested that
children with hard pneumonia are treated at hospitals. In poorer and
more rural areas, however, children ar often referred to hospital care
simply do non attend; many fail to receive passable care. An alternative
to hospitals is treatment in local, first-level facilities, and it is
the refuge and effectiveness of these facilities that Drs. Enayet Karim
Chowdhury and Shams El Arifeen (International Center for Diarrheal
Disease Research, Bangladesh [ICDDR,B]) and colleagues study in their
recent research. These modified guidelines also recommend that children
with the most severe cases of pneumonia ar referred to the hospital.
The study sample consisted of two cohorts of children from 10
first-level health facilities in rural Matlab, Bangladesh - all
facilities that had been exploitation the former IMCI guidelines. One cohort
included 261 children world Health Organization attended the facilities betwixt May 2003 and
April 2004, before the researchers implemented the limited guidelines.
In this group, 94% were referred to hospital, 36%
received appropriate care, and 1.1% (3 children) died. In the
second cohort, 1,271 children were treated at the facilities after the
modified guidelines were implemented. In this group, 8% were referred
to hospital, 90% standard appropriate care, and 0.6% (7
children) died.
"Local adaptation of the IMCI guidelines, with appropriate training and
supervision, could allow dependable and in effect management of severe
pneumonia, especially if compliance with referral is difficult because
of geographic, financial, or cultural barriers," conclude the authors.
An concomitant comment written by Dr Igor Rudan (Croatian Centre for
Global Health, University of Split Medical School, Croatia) and Dr
Harry Campbell (University of Edinburgh Medical School, UK) notes that:
"We welcome a strong increase in investment in controlled trials
in developing countries to address essential gaps in information - such as
correct case management of severe pneumonia in children with HIV
infection - and in health-policy and systems research to identify
effective ways to improve and scale up implementation of interventions
against pneumonia."
Care at first-level facilities for children with severe pneumonia in
Bangladesh: a cohort study
Enayet K Chowdhury, Shams El Arifeen, Muntasirur Rahman, DM
Emdadul Hoque, M Altaf Hossain, Khadija Begum, Ashraf Siddik, Nazma
Begum, Qazi Sadeq-ur Rahman, Tasnima Akter, Twaha M Haque, ZA Motin
Al-Helal, Abdullah H Baqui, Jennifer Bryce, Robert E Black
The Lancet (2008).
DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(08)61166-6
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Wednesday 27 August 2008
P Diddy sure to win an Olympic gold for sex
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Sunday 17 August 2008
Fluctuations In PSA And The Use Of Antibiotics
�UroToday.com - A iI to four week line of antibiotic therapy is often exploited in patients with an elevated PSA to exclude inflammation as an etiology of the elevated level. This speak reviews the data regarding variations in PSA, etiology and the practice of antibiotic use.
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Thursday 7 August 2008
Dr. Green
Artist: Dr. Green
Genre(s):
Ska
Other
Discography:
Purvas
Year: 2002
Tracks: 9
The Sounds Of Black and White Radio
Year: 1999
Tracks: 12
Ska 'n' Go
Year: 1998
Tracks: 16
Tuesday 1 July 2008
Kerosene Club
Artist: Kerosene Club
Genre(s):
Trance: Psychedelic
Discography:
The Forest Of The Freaks
Year: 2007
Tracks: 9
Coldplay toppled from US No.1 spot
Thursday 26 June 2008
Lighting Hopkins
Artist: Lighting Hopkins
Genre(s):
Blues
Discography:
Blues Train
Year: 1951
Tracks: 15
Sam Hopkins was a Texas country bluesman of the highest caliber whose career began in the 1920s and stretched all the way of life into the 1980s. Along the way, Hopkins watched the genre change unmistakably, only he never appreciably neutered his plaintive Lone Star sound, which translated onto both acoustic and electric guitar. Hopkins' nimble manual dexterity made intricate boogie riffs seem soft, and his riveting predilection for improvising lyrics to suit whatever state of affairs mightiness originate made him a honey megrims poet-singer.
Hopkins' brothers John Henry and Joel were as well talented bluesmen, just it was Sam wHO became a star. In 1920, he met the legendary Blind Lemon Jefferson at a social function, and even got a chance to play with him. Later, Hopkins served as Jefferson's guide. In his teens, Hopkins began working with some other prewar great, singer Texas Alexander, wHO was his first cousin. A mid-'30s stretch in Houston's County Prison Farm for the brigham Young guitar player fitful their partnership for a time, only when he was freed, Hopkins dependant back up up with the elder bluesman.
The pair was dishing tabu their lowdown brand of vapours in Houston's Third Ward in 1946 when gift talent scout Lola Anne Cullum came across them. She had already engineered a accord with Los Angeles-based Aladdin Records for some other of her charges, piano player Amos Milburn, and Cullum saw the same sort of opportunity inside Hopkins' dust-covered rural area vapours. Alexander wasn't voice of the address; rather, Cullum paired Hopkins with piano player Wilson "Boom" Smith, reasonably re-christened the guitar player "Lightnin'," and presto! Hopkins was very shortly an Aladdin transcription creative person.
"Katie May," cut on November 9, 1946, in L.A. with Smith loaning a hand on the 88s, was Lightnin' Hopkins' first-class honours degree regional trafficker of eminence. He recorded prolifically for Aladdin in both L.A. and Houston into 1948, scoring a national R&B strike for the immobile with his "Shotgun Blues." "Little Haired Woman," "Abilene," and "Big Mama Jump," among many Aladdin gems, were redolent Texas blues stock-still in an sooner era.
A freight of other labels recorded the slick Hopkins later on that, both in a solo setting and with a low beat section: Modern/RPM (his inflexible "Tim Moore's Farm" was an R&B strike in 1949); Gold Star (where he strike with "T-Model Blues" that same year); Sittin' in With ("Give Me Central 209" and "Coffee Blues" were national chart entries in 1952) and its Jax subsidiary; the major labels Mercury and Decca; and, in 1954, a singular clutch of sides for Herald where Hopkins played red-hot electric guitar on a serial of blasting bikers ("Lightnin's Boogie," "Lightnin's Special," and the astonishing "Hopkins' Sky Hop") in strawman of drummer Ben Turner and bassist Donald Cooks (wHO moldiness suffer had haemorrhage fingers, so torrid were some of the tempos).
But Hopkins' style was seemingly as well bumpkinly and old fashioned for the new generation of sway & undulate enthusiasts (they should have checkered stunned "Hopkins' Sky Hop"). He was back on the Houston scene by 1959, for the most part disregarded. Fortunately, folklorist Mack McCormick rediscovered the guitar player, wHO was dusted off and presented as a folk-blues artist; a part that Hopkins was born to play. Pioneering musicologist Sam Charters produced Hopkins in a solo context of use for Folkways Records that same year, cutting an entire LP in Hopkins' petite flat (on a borrowed guitar). The results helped introduced his medicine to an wholly new interview.
Lightnin' Hopkins went from gigging at back-alley gin joints to stellar at collegiate coffeehouses, coming into court on TV programs, and touring Europe to flush. His once-flagging transcription vocation went proper through the roof, with albums for World Pacific; Vee-Jay; Bluesville; Bobby Robinson's Fire label (where he cut his classical "Mojo Hand" in 1960); Candid; Arhoolie; Prestige; Verve; and, in 1965, the first-class honours degree of several LPs for Stan Lewis' Shreveport-based Jewel logotype.
Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins generally demanded full requital earlier he'd deign to sit down and criminal record, and rarely indulged a producer's desire for more than than matchless take of any song. His singular sense of area time mixed-up more than a few unseasoned musicians; from the sixties on, his solo work is ordinarily preferred to band-backed material.
Film producer Les Blank captured the Texas troubadour's informal modus vivendi most vividly in his acclaimed 1967 objective, The Blues Accordin' to Lightnin' Hopkins. As one of the utmost majuscule nation bluesmen, Hopkins was a bewitching figure world Health Organization bridged the gap between rural and urban styles.
Monday 16 June 2008
Friday 6 June 2008
Deyn named best-dressed ahead of Kate Moss
Kate Moss has been knocked off the top of a best-dressed list by model-of-the-moment Agyness Deyn.
34-year-old Moss had taken the best-dressed crown for the last two years thanks to her prized ability to influence the contents of women's wardrobes.
Although she still receives praise in Tatler magazine's annual list, it is Moss's rival Deyn, 25, whose sartorial choices enlist most respect.
Tatler also puts Samantha Cameron, the wife of Tory leader David Cameron, in the top 10 for being "consistently chic and never flash". The magazine adds: "She brings some much-needed glamour to the Tory Wives Club."
Actress Keira Knightley takes fourth place, for being a "red carpet style icon" who works the "grungy but clean" look during the day.
Anouck Lepere, the Belgian model girlfriend of Moss's ex, Jefferson Hack, is sixth.
Alexa Chung, the girlfriend of Arctic Monkeys frontman Alex Turner and presenter of T4, is 10th. The magazine says she is often "seen in a navy children's princess coat with a velvet collar which cost a tenner in Brick Lane".
Former chip girl Deyn, winner of Model of the Year, recently replaced Moss in the latest Burberry campaign.
The fashion label says Moss is "still part of the Burberry family".
Tatler writes of Deyn: "Whether she's sipping chai at the Russian Tea Rooms in Primrose Hill or kicking back at Henry Holland's studio, She's fash-fabulous... Rockin."
It still credits Moss with influencing women, giving her second place in the top 10 and writing: "If she wears it, the rest of the world follows suit.She has proven her designer credentials with her sell-out Topshop clothing range."
Top 10 Best-Dressed1. Agyness Deyn (model)2. Kate Moss (model)3. Natalia Vodianova (Russian model)4. Keira Knightley (actress)5. Stella Tennant (model)6. Anouck Lepere (model)7. Lynn de Rothschild (of the banking family)8. Kirsty Bertarelli (billionaire's wife and former beauty queen)9. Samantha Cameron (David Cameron's wife and creative director of Smythson)10. Alexa Chung (T4 presenter)
34-year-old Moss had taken the best-dressed crown for the last two years thanks to her prized ability to influence the contents of women's wardrobes.
Although she still receives praise in Tatler magazine's annual list, it is Moss's rival Deyn, 25, whose sartorial choices enlist most respect.
Tatler also puts Samantha Cameron, the wife of Tory leader David Cameron, in the top 10 for being "consistently chic and never flash". The magazine adds: "She brings some much-needed glamour to the Tory Wives Club."
Actress Keira Knightley takes fourth place, for being a "red carpet style icon" who works the "grungy but clean" look during the day.
Anouck Lepere, the Belgian model girlfriend of Moss's ex, Jefferson Hack, is sixth.
Alexa Chung, the girlfriend of Arctic Monkeys frontman Alex Turner and presenter of T4, is 10th. The magazine says she is often "seen in a navy children's princess coat with a velvet collar which cost a tenner in Brick Lane".
Former chip girl Deyn, winner of Model of the Year, recently replaced Moss in the latest Burberry campaign.
The fashion label says Moss is "still part of the Burberry family".
Tatler writes of Deyn: "Whether she's sipping chai at the Russian Tea Rooms in Primrose Hill or kicking back at Henry Holland's studio, She's fash-fabulous... Rockin."
It still credits Moss with influencing women, giving her second place in the top 10 and writing: "If she wears it, the rest of the world follows suit.She has proven her designer credentials with her sell-out Topshop clothing range."
Top 10 Best-Dressed1. Agyness Deyn (model)2. Kate Moss (model)3. Natalia Vodianova (Russian model)4. Keira Knightley (actress)5. Stella Tennant (model)6. Anouck Lepere (model)7. Lynn de Rothschild (of the banking family)8. Kirsty Bertarelli (billionaire's wife and former beauty queen)9. Samantha Cameron (David Cameron's wife and creative director of Smythson)10. Alexa Chung (T4 presenter)
Wednesday 21 May 2008
Pregnancy dilemma for EastEnders' Roxy
Pregnancy dilemma for EastEnders' Roxy
'EastEnders' badly missy Roxy Mitchell is reportedly set for a vauntingly plot line in the orgasm weeks when she discovers that she is pregnant.
According to The Dominicus, Roxy (played by Rita Simons) faces a major quandary because she doesn't know wHO the father of her baby is.
Roxy has been beholding badly boy Sean Slater merely she later has an involvement with her sister Ronnie's swain, Labourer Branning.
A beginning told the paper: "TV audience testament be shocked when Roxy jumps into bed with Jack. It's the ultimate betrayal."
"Ronnie would be furious with both of them if she institute out. They try to keep it a secret by pretence it never happened because Sean volition likewise go ballistic."
"Just once Roxy realises there's a baby on the elbow room her secret starts to prove real difficult to preserve."
Miley Cyrus Defends Underwear Flash Pictures
Saturday 10 May 2008
Ekova
Artist: Ekova
Genre(s):
Ethnic
Discography:
Space Lullabies And Other Fa..
Year: 2001
Tracks: 14
The globally inspired three-base hit Ekova got its name from a
Carole King
Tuesday 29 April 2008
Cole takes time out after allegations
Cole takes time out after allegations
Girls Out loud isaac Bashevis Singer Cheryl Kale has reportedly left field hubby Ashley for a "bust" after allegations the football player cheated on her.
Her agent insisted the couple were still together but confirmed the isaac Bashevis Singer had gone on a break down in social club to believe things through.
ITN quotes him as expression: "They are emphatically still unitedly. In that location is manifestly scads of stuff sledding on at the moment and Cheryl has gone away for a break to clear her head for a few years."
It has been alleged Chelsea player Kale cheated on his married woman with a stylist.
It has also emerged that the singer of late told OK! magazine publisher that later this year she wanted to "set forth workings on that baby. I require to be a whitney Moore Young Jr. mum".
Pixis
Thursday 24 April 2008
Queen guitarist named University Chancellor
Queen guitarist named University Chancellor
Queen's Brian May is to be installed as the Premier of Liverpool Gospel According to John Moores University.
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Jessica Simpson
Artist: Jessica Simpson
Genre(s):
Pop
Dance: Pop
Rock: Pop-Rock
Discography:
A Public Affair
Year: 2006
Tracks: 13
These Boots Are Made for Walking
Year: 2005
Tracks: 6
Take My Breath Away
Year: 2004
Tracks: 3
Irresistible
Year: 2000
Tracks: 13
Sweet Kisses
Year:
Tracks: 11
In This Skin
Year:
Tracks: 24
Dance-pop isaac Merrit Singer Jessica Simpson was born and brocaded in Dallas, TX, beginning her playacting vocation as a swain fellow member of her church building construction choir; at 12, she besides auditioned unsuccessfully for The Paddy Mouse Club. Spell attention church refugee camp the followers summer, Simpson was observed by the head of a flyspeck CCM label and fatigued the adjacent leash eld recording her debut album. The label, however, folded in front the record could be released, although a small pressure was finally funded by her nanna. Still, the adolescent became a reach out on the Christian Youth Conference circuit, as well sharing bills with Kirk John Hope Franklin, God's Dimension, and CeCe Winans.
Quest to expand her popularity in the layperson grocery, Duchess of Windsor by and by gestural to Sony and toured in reenforcement of boy dance band sensations 98°. Her 1999 major-label debut, Fresh Kisses, launched the boom "I Wanna Beloved You Forever and a day." A s studio flat effort, Irresistible, appeared in bounce 2001. Disdain the MTV coverage of the album's rubric cart track, Simpson's soph campaign didn't fare as well as her first album. The followers class, Simpson marital her longtime whitney Moore Young Jr. isle of Man, 98° balladeer Nick Lachey. She besides went on to look in various episodes of That '70s Demonstrate, just it took Simpson until summertime 2003 to become a bona fide celebrity. She and Lachey's MTV-produced reality evince, Newlyweds, captured space moments of the couple's first base year of marriage.
Simpson's third base album, the really very much more mature In This Skin, appeared in July. First single "Sweetest Sin" was a subdue graph hit, only thanks to the victor of Newlyweds, Simpson's teetering life story history got a second opportunity. A blurb single, "With You," was a favorite among the MTV crowd, and by spring 2004, In This Skin was re-released. It included reworked versions of Berlin's "Occupy My Breath Away" and Robbie Williams' "Angels" as intimately as supernumerary footage from the first gear season of Newlyweds. Simpson fatigued the rest of 2004 and early on 2005 working on the blink of an eye fourth dimension of year of Newlyweds, as easily as on her share as Daisy Duke in the Dukes of Luck question scene. Late that year, she and Lachey spaced. Presently afterwards, Sir James Young Simpson got to teaser out on her fourth album and in any case started shooting the motion picture Employee of the Calendar month. A Public Affaire arrived in summer 2006 and was influenced by everything from '80s fresh wave to modern-day rural area.
Ravi Shankar - Ali Akbar Khan
Roger Waters and Ron Geesin
Artist: Roger Waters and Ron Geesin
Genre(s):
Rock
Discography:
Music from The Body
Year: 1970
Tracks: 22
Emmerdale star fighting mystery illness
Emmerdale star fighting mystery illness
'Emmerdale' headliner Clive Hornby is to take a bankrupt from the show amid fears over his wellness.
According to The Mirror newspaper, the 63-year-old is scrap an unnamed illness.
Hornby is 'Emmerdale's longest-serving purge phallus afterwards making his commencement appearance as Jack Sugden 28 age ago.
He latterly insisted that he loved the course of study and had no plans to withdraw, expression: "I can't believe I'm still hither sometimes. Just about of the kids in the register weren't yet born when I started.
"I can't imagine going - it would be the last of me, that. I'm happy to be doing it as long as they want me doing it."
A show spokesman said: "We butt confirm that Baron Clive is unwell only fully intends to fall to work."
Hornby, world Health Organization originally joined the soap on a tercet month reduce, will be seen in episodes until mid-February.
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