Progress Toward Poliomyelitis Eradication-Eastern Mediterranean Region, 1998-October 1999
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Public health officials in the 23 countries in the Eastern Mediterranean Region have made substantial progress in eradicating polio. In 1998, 16 of these countries had vaccinated more than 90% of their children against polio. Nineteen countries implemented National Immunization Days between 1998 and 1999. By mid-1998, all member countries except Djibouti began a surveillance program to detect cases of polio. From 1988 through October 1999, the number of confirmed polio cases reported in the region decreased 81%, from 2,342 to 446.
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 2000
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Helicobacter pylori eradication to prevent gastric cancer in a high-risk region of China: a randomized controlled trial
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Giving people with a Helicobacter pylori stomach infection drugs to eliminate the infection could lower their risk of developing stomach cancer, according to a Chinese study of 1,630 people. Some of the people had a precancerous stomach disease, and these people did not benefit from drug treatment. However, among the people with no precancerous stomach disease, those who took the drugs were less likely to develop stomach cancer than those who did not.
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 2004
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Health status of childhood cancer survivors: cure is more than the eradication of cancer
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Oncologists must do a better job of providing follow-up care to adult survivors of childhood cancer. Many survivors continue to have medical, psychiatric, and social problems as well as various degrees of disability. This may often be caused by complications of cancer therapy. As of 2003, there were approximately 200,000 adult survivors of childhood cancer in the US.
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 2003
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