Q: After our 4-year-old daughter started day care, she had a few episodes of diarrhea. It lasted only a day or two each time, but it's not something that happened while we were home during the ...

Every year, nearly 500,000 children die from an easily curable condition: diarrhea. There's a simple and effective treatment: mixing oral rehydration salts — which are basically a mix of sugar and ...

CAPE TOWN — With her 18-month-old daughter suffering from acute diarrhea in mid-February, Novangele Nyikana left the one-room home she shares with her partner and children, and sought help at the ...

Diarrhea doesn't make headlines. Nor does pneumonia. AIDS and malaria tend to get most of the attention. Yet even though cheap tools could prevent and cure both diseases, they kill an estimated 3.5 ...

Diarrhea was rampant, children were losing weight, and parents had to clean soiled clothing in sinks because guards would not provide them with clean items, mothers at an overcrowded Texas border ...

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