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| A Child's Right believes that all children, regardless of race, religion, ethnicity, gender or location, should be and can be afforded the most essential of needs to improve their lives and ensure their healthy development.
Clean drinking water is the single most important ingredient for healthy children the world over- yet thousands of children die every day due to a lack of potable water. In this day and age, with the support of those in the more prosperous nations, this should no longer be a privilege for some, but should be a basic right of every child.
A Child's Right is committed to providing the very best in water purification technologies and clean water systems to desperate children in orphanages, street shelters, children's hospitals and schools in impoverished nations throughout the world. | Researchers warn about overprescribing Tamiflu
03 Oct 2007 00:01:06 GMT - Source: Reuters
LONDON, Oct 3 (Reuters) - Sewage systems do not break down Tamiflu, which means the main weapon against bird flu could seep into natural waters and make certain viruses resistant to the drug during a pandemic, Swedish researchers said on Wednesday.
Because of this, doctors should take care to not overprescribe Roche Holding AG's <ROG.VX> market-leading antiviral drug, they said in a study published in the Public Library of Science.
"Antiviral medicines such as Tamiflu must be used with care and only when the medical situation justifies it," Bjorn Olsen, a researcher at Uppsala University and the University of Kalmar said in a statement.
"Otherwise there is a risk that they will be ineffective when most needed, such as during the next influenza pandemic." Roche, which the researchers said donated the drug for their study, said it was unlikely such resistance would arise.
"In the highly unlikely event that such resistance was generated, this must be balanced against the fact that influenza viruses with the associated mutational changes have been shown to have lower transmissibility," the company said. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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