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(Public Library of Science) Newborns in Brazil are more susceptible to toxoplasmosis than those in Europe, according to a recent study.

Researchers based in Austria, Brazil, Denmark, France, Italy, Poland, Sweden and the United Kingdom studied the disease's ocular effects in children from birth to four years of age.

Details are published Aug. 13 in the open-access journal PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases.

FCC concludes by 3-2 vote that Comcast violated Internet open-access guidelines by blocking BitTorrent peer-to-peer traffic.

(BioMed Central) A new analysis of a 2005 survey of American schoolchildren has identified factors that may be used to help improve school safety.

The research, published in BioMed Central's open access journal Annals of General Psychiatry, gives detailed information about the carrying of guns, blades and clubs.

(BioMed Central) Almost a quarter of the most problematic drug-users in some areas exit drug treatment programmes before they've even completed 30 days reports a new study published in BioMed Central's open access Harm Reduction Journal.

It found that problem drug-users who were younger, homeless or not currently injecting are significantly more likely to exit early, possibly because drug services are off-putting and not suited to their needs.

Training community members such as barbers as peer educators can be an effective way of spreading information on HIV/AIDS throughout low-literacy, rural communities, say findings published this week in the open access journal Human Resources for Health.

Artemisinin-based suppositories can help "buy time" for malaria patients who face a delay in accessing effective, injectable antimalarials, according to research published in the online open access journal BMC Infectious Diseases.

Parental monitoring can reduce high-school drinking and, as a result, have a protective effect on students' drinking at college, says research published this week in the online open access journal Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy.

ICU nurses are poor at spotting delirious patients in their care according to previous research, but a simple educational program could soon remedy this serious failing.

Reporting in the open access journal Critical Care, investigators showed that a basic training workshop quickly brings nurses up to the same standard as 'experts' in recognizing the symptoms of delirium.