Rheumatic heart disease is a sorely neglected condition in the developing world, with almost half of affected patients not receiving penicillin prophylaxis, a study from the Global Rheumatic Heart Disease Registry found. Among 3,343 patients enrolled in the registry between 2010 and 2012, only 54.8% were given antibiotic prophylaxis, which most often was intramuscular penicillin, […]
DOCTORS are failing to diagnose and manage rheumatic heart disease properly, needlessly placing the lives of many pregnant women and their unborn babies at risk, according to new research published on Wednesday in the European Heart Journal. Rheumatic heart disease is caused by rheumatic fever, a rare auto-immune condition associated with untreated childhood streptococcus A […]
Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) – the most common acquired heart disease in children in many countries of the world – is being neglected and poorly treated, according to new findings from the Global Rheumatic Heart Disease Registry (the REMEDY study), published online today (Wednesday) in the European Heart Journal. RHD accounts for up to 1.4 […]
As we mark 25 years of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the 2015 edition of The State of the World’s Children (SOWC) calls for brave and fresh thinking to address age-old problems that still affect the world’s most disadvantaged children. In particular, the report calls for innovation – and for the best and brightest […]
November 17, 2014, Cape Town, South Africa – Team Alvimedica skipper Charlie Enright and crew member Dave Swete made an emotional visit this morning to the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital. The two Volvo Ocean Race sailors were shown around the Intensive Care Unit and they met a number of the children in the […]
Team Alvimedica Offers Unique “Jump Seat” Experience to Benefit Cardiac Charities Around the World Cape Town, South Africa, October 30, 2014 Bidding is now open for the chance to start each leg of the Volvo Ocean Race with Team Alvimedica before jumping overboard to benefit heart charities at each stopover port of the race around […]
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