This do-it-yourself approach is not only dangerous; it’s scientifically flawed. Fever is not a disease. It’s a symptom — your body’s way of sounding the alarm that something is wrong. That “something” ...

The Vice President of the Ghana Medical Association (GMA), Professor Ernest Yorke, has called for urgent reforms in the certification of food vendors, warning that the immunological tests currently ...

India faces a surge in typhoid cases, exacerbated by unreliable diagnostic methods like the Widal test, leading to misdiagnosis and delayed treatment. The rise in cases is further complicated by ...

Introduction: Vaccination against COVID-19 has generated a dramatic reduction in deaths and infections worldwide. However, there may be cross-reactivity with numerous biochemical and immunological ...

New Delhi: Experiencing high fever with stomach pain? It could be typhoid fever. Don’t ignore the symptoms—book Widal test to identify the cause early and begin the right treatment. Early diagnosis ...

The Sindh Healthcare Commission (SHCC) had officially banned the Widal and Typhidot tests across the province in December 2022, but many doctors and laboratories continue to use these unreliable tests ...

Abstract: Typhoid fever poses a significant health concern among children, due to its potential for severe complications and high treatment costs. This paper proposes an intelligent approach to ...

Department of Microbiology, Centre for Infectious Diseases, Saveetha Dental College and Hospitals, Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences (SIMATS), Chennai 600077, India The Article on ...

Copyright: © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. For this prospective diagnostic accuracy study, we enrolled children younger than 18 years, who presented ...

As world leaders discuss the battle against superbugs in New York, Pakistan’s children are suffering on the frontline From his sickbed, eight-year-old Ukasha could see his siblings play with a ball in ...