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Hand Washing: A Proposed Scoring Scale to Grade the Level of Practice of Mothers in the Community
History of hand washing as an intervention to reduce morbidity and mortality in hospitals dates back to early 1800’s and the practise has
yielded good results. Increasing evidence suggesting that hand washing significantly reduced the risk of respiratory tract infections and
diarrhoeal diseases, lead to the promotion of hand washing in homes as a public health intervention of choice with well documented impact.
Descriptive Study of Exposure to Inhalation Zanamivir and Pregnancy-Related Outcomes
The Health Improvement Network (THIN) provided data from UK General Practitioners (GPs) for 144 pregnant women who were prescribed zanamivir and 144 age- and date-matched untreated comparators with no recorded diagnosis of influenza. Groups were assessed for baseline characteristics, treatment-emergent diagnoses in the mother, pregnancy outcomes and congenital malformations diagnosed in the offspring within 28 days of birth.