India's National Program for Control of Diarrheal Diseases has established Diarrhea Training and Treatment Units (DTUs) to reduce diarrhea-related morbidity and mortality. The cost-effectiveness and impact of oral rehydration therapy (ORT) were evaluated prospectively in all children presenting to the DTU of I.G. Medical College (Shimla, India) in 1993-94. During the 2-year study period, a to...

Using experimental methods, this paper investigates the limits of communication and leadership in aiding group coordination in a minimum e ort game. Choosing the highest e ort is the payo dominant Nash equilibrium in this game, and communication and leadership are expected to help in coordinating on such an equilibrium. We consider an environment in which the bene ts of coordination are low com...

Aberrant conduction during orthodromic reciprocating tachycardia (ORT) can prolong the ventriculo-atrial time, which is found essential for reentry in certain situations. To investigate prevalence and different mechanism of aberrancy-dependent ORT. ORT cases relying on aberrancy from 220 our center were searched using following criteria: (1) Multiple episodes with aberrant ECG ; (2) No baseline...

This paper shows that a policy that uniformly increases contestants’ e¤ort costs can lead to an increase in total e¤ort. In asymmetric settings, this “levels the playing …eld”and therefore encourages weaker players (who otherwise would have stayed out) to enter. Paradoxically, a contest designer whose only objective is to maximize total e¤ort may thus wish to make rent-seeking “more di¢ cult.” ...

Cholera drove the sanitary revolution in the industrialized world in the 19th century and now is driving the development of oral rehydration therapy (ORT) in the developing world. Despite the long history of cholera, only in the 1960s and 1970s was ORT fully developed. Scientists described this treatment after the discovery of the intact sodium-glucose intestinal cotransport in patients with ch...

BACKGROUND Dehydration associated with gastroenteritis is a serious complication. Oral rehydration is an effective and inexpensive treatment, but some physicians prefer intravenous methods. OBJECTIVES To compare oral with intravenous therapy for treating dehydration due to acute gastroenteritis in children. SEARCH STRATEGY We searched the Cochrane Infectious Diseases Group Specialized Regis...

Diarrheal disease is one of the leading causes of worldwide morbidity and mortality, especially in children. It causes loss of body fluid, which may lead to severe dehydration, electrolyte imbalance, shock and even to death. The mortality rate from acute diarrhea has decreased over the last few decades. This decline, especially in developing countries is largely due to the implantation of the s...

Mouse colorectal cancer (CRC) models generated by orthotopic microinjection of human CRC cell lines reproduce the pattern of lymphatic, haematological and transcoelomic spread but generate low metastatic efficiency. Our aim was to develop a new strategy that could increase the metastatic efficiency of these models. We used subcutaneous implantation of the human CRC cell lines HCT116 or SW48 pri...

OBJECTIVE To explore whether aberrant transient chondrocyte behaviors occur in the joints of STR/Ort mice (which spontaneously develop osteoarthritis [OA]) and whether they are attributable to an endochondral growth defect. METHODS Knee joints from STR/Ort mice with advanced OA and age-matched CBA (control) mice were examined by Affymetrix microarray profiling, multiplex polymerase chain reac...