Book reviews : Management of severe malaria Second Edition. Published by the World Health Organization, Geneva 2000. Paperback 70 pp. Price $13.50 ISBN 92-4-154523-2

2001 ◽  
Vol 121 (2) ◽  
pp. 128-128
Author(s):  
David Donaldson
Keyword(s):  
World Health Organization ◽  
Severe Malaria ◽  
World Health ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization

Book reviews: Out, damned spots!

1993 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 145-147
Keyword(s):  
World Health Organization ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Theoretical Basis ◽  
Hard Work ◽  
World Health ◽  
Financial Resources ◽  
Global Campaign ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization

Richard B. Fisher, Edward Jenner 1749-823.London: André Deutsch, 1991. Pp. 361, £20.00. ISBN 0 233 98681 2 In the summer of 1796, Joseph Banks, long-serving President of the Royal Society, turned down Jenner’s Inquiry on what he called the variolae vaccinae as ‘inadequate’ for publication in the Philosophical Transactions . Barely two years later a revised version, with several additions to the originally very few experimental cowpox inoculations, was published privately. The blurb’s claim that Jenner thus ‘freed mankind from "the spotted plague", smallpox’, seems an exaggerated tribute which ignores the hard work of successive later generations to provide a safe, theoretical basis for Jenner’s empiricism, and also the enormous technical and financial resources invested by the World Health Organization in the prolonged global campaign which finally achieved eradication of smallpox nearly 200 years later. Even within Edward Jenner’s own lifetime, the story of the progress of ‘vaccination’ as opposed to ‘variolation’ was a complex one, not helped by his failure to realize the need for periodic re-vaccination.

scholarly journals Central venous catheter use in severe malaria: time to reconsider the World Health Organization guidelines?

2011 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Josh Hanson ◽  
Sophia WK Lam ◽  
Sanjib Mohanty ◽  
Shamshul Alam ◽  
Md Mahtab Uddin Hasan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Central Venous Catheter ◽  
World Health Organization ◽  
Severe Malaria ◽  
Venous Catheter ◽  
World Health ◽  
Central Venous ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization

Effect of Body Weight and Age on the Pharmacokinetics of Dihydroartemisinin: Food and Drug Administration Basis for Dose Determination of Artesunate for Injection in Pediatric Patients With Severe Malaria

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eliford Kitabi ◽  
Timothy J Bensman ◽  
Justin C Earp ◽  
Dakshina M Chilukuri ◽  
Heidi Smith ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Body Weight ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
World Health Organization ◽  
Severe Malaria ◽  
Pediatric Patients ◽  
World Health ◽  
Dose Determination ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization

Abstract For treatment of severe malaria, the World Health Organization recommends 3 mg/kg intravenous artesunate in pediatric patients weighing less than 20 kg. Here we describe the Food and Drug Administration’s rationale for selecting 2.4 mg/kg in pediatric patients weighing less than 20 kg based on literature review and independent analyses.

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