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(Reuters Health) - Teaching toddlers in daycare to use hand sanitizers could go a long way in keeping them from falling ill, missing school and reducing their need for antibiotics, a study suggests. The findings, published in the journal Pediatrics, showed children trained to use hand sanitizer developed fewer respiratory infections and received fewer antibiotics than those left to follow their usual hand-washing procedures or taught to use soap and water. “Schools are a good place to focus on programs promoting health, as they provide a relatively easy and sustainable way to achieve long-term change in the behavior of the students,” Dr. Ernestina Azor-Martinez of Distrito Sanitario Atención Primaria Almería in Almería, Spain, the study’s lead author, told Reuters Health in an email. The eight-month study included 911 healthy children aged three and younger at 25 daycare centers in Spain. The centers were randomly divided into three groups. In one … [Read more...] about Hand sanitizer use at daycare could keep toddler illnesses at bay

BERLIN (Reuters) - Siemens Healthineers has teamed up with Israeli start-up Healthy.io to allow patients to test their urine at home by using a smartphone camera that scans a dipstick and sends the results to their doctor. FILE PHOTO: Siemens Healthineers headquarters is pictured in Erlangen near Nuremberg, Germany, October 7, 2016. REUTERS/Michaela Rehle/File Photo The alliance is the latest partnership between medtech firms and technology companies aimed at helping patients monitor their own health, as well as lowering the costs of managing chronic diseases. Urine testing is the world’s second-most frequently conducted diagnostic test. Regular testing is needed to monitor kidney function in patients with chronic kidney disease, as well as to detect potential signs of diabetes. Under the global partnership announced on Tuesday, Healthy.io will use urinalysis tests from Siemens Healthineers in dipkits that are sent to patients at home. Patients urinate on the dipstick … [Read more...] about Siemens Healthineers partners with Healthy.io for smartphone-based…

Colleen Long and Elliot Spagat, Associated Press Updated 10:56 am CDT, Saturday, October 20, 2018 This image from video provided by the Yuma Sector Border Patrol shows a large group of Central American migrants being dropped over the U.S.-Mexico border wall east of the San Luis Port of Entry in Yuma, Arizona, on Friday, Oct. 19, 2018. (Yuma Sector Border Patrol via AP) less This image from video provided by the Yuma Sector Border Patrol shows a large group of Central American migrants being dropped over the U.S.-Mexico border wall east of the San Luis Port of Entry in Yuma, ... more Photo: Yuma Sector Border Patrol, AP President Donald Trump looks the the cheering audience as he leaves a campaign rally at Minuteman Aviation Hangar, Thursday, Oct. 18, 2018, in Missoula, Mont. Trump’s 2016 campaign was defined by his fiery immigration rhetoric, visions of the undocumented flowing across the border to … [Read more...] about Questions and answers about state of the US-Mexico border

Bassem Mroue, Associated Press Updated 7:17 am CDT, Saturday, October 20, 2018 This photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA shows Abeer Shalgheen and her four children after being freed by the Islamic State group that kidnapped them on July 25 during a raid by the extremists on the southern province of Sweida, Syria, Saturday, Oct. 20, 2018. The Islamic State group early Saturday released two women and four children they had been holding since July in the first part of an exchange with the Syrian government that will set free dozens of women related to members of the extremist group, opposition activists said. (SANA via AP) less This photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA shows Abeer Shalgheen and her four children after being freed by the Islamic State group that kidnapped them on July 25 during a raid by the ... more Photo: AP In this photo released by the Syrian official … [Read more...] about IS frees 6 hostages in exchange with Syrian government

Updated 1:56 pm CDT, Friday, October 19, 2018 FILE - This June 4, 2018 photo shows a sign directing visitors to attractions on Avery Island in Louisiana. Louisiana's Avery Island, a salt dome and the birthplace of Tabasco pepper sauce, is newly listed on the National Register of Historic Places. U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy announced Friday, Oct. 19, 2018, that the U.S. Department of the Interior has given the historic designation to the island, located in Iberia Parish. less FILE - This June 4, 2018 photo shows a sign directing visitors to attractions on Avery Island in Louisiana. Louisiana's Avery Island, a salt dome and the birthplace of Tabasco pepper sauce, is newly listed on ... more Photo: Beth J. Harpaz, AP Photo: Beth J. Harpaz, AP Image 1 of / 1 Caption Close Image 1 of 1 FILE - This June 4, 2018 photo shows a … [Read more...] about Louisiana’s Avery Island listed on historic place register