Reaching mothers and babies with early postnatal home visits: the implementation realities of achieving high coverage in large-scale programs.

BACKGROUND: Nearly half of births in low-income countries occur without a skilled attendant, and even fewer mothers and babies have postnatal contact with providers who can deliver preventive or curative services that save lives.Community-based maternal and newborn care programs with postnatal home visits have been tested in Bangladesh, Malawi, and

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Association of sustained virologic response with reduced progression to liver cirrhosis in elderly patients with chronic hepatitis C

Chih-Wei Tseng,1,2 Ting-Tsung Chang,3,4 Shinn-Jia Tzeng,5 Yu-Hsi Hsieh,1,2 Tsung-Hsing Hung,1,2 Hsiang-Ting Huang,6 Shu-Fen Wu,7 Kuo-Chih Tseng1,2 1Department of Internal Medicine, Dalin Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, Chia-Yi, 2School of Medicine, Tzuchi University, Hualien, 3Department of Internal Medicine, National Cheng K

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Movement Control Order on Legal and Social Aspects: Malaysian and Indonesian Government Initiatives During Covid-19

The Covid-19 pandemic hit another grim milestone on as worldwide deaths from the disease exceeded 100,000.Many countries have enforced social distancing rules and even lockdowns Electronics - Watches in an effort to contain the spread of the virus.Malaysian Government, in almost daily bases proposed initiatives and efforts to copyright Malaysia soc

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BLA DBS improves anxiety and fear by correcting weakened synaptic transmission from BLA to adBNST and CeL in a mouse model of foot shock

Summary: Deep brain stimulation (DBS) in the basal lateral amygdala (BLA) has been established to correct symptoms of refractory post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).However, how BLA DBS operates in correcting PTSD symptoms and how the BLA elicits pathological fear and anxiety in PTSD remain unclear.Here, we discover that excitatory synaptic trans

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