Disease relevance of Pan American Health Organization

• Pre-coded forms were completed during consultations at cooperating allergy departments, and all were analyzed centrally at the Pan American Health Organization. Eighty-six percent of the patients studied were atopic and 46 percent of asthmatic patients had a history of other associated allergic conditions (allergic rhinitis, atopic dermatitis) [1].
• The Dengue IgM Capture ELISA (MAC-ELISA) is the immunoenzymatic system recommended by the Pan American Health Organization and the World Health Organization for the serological diagnosis of dengue virus infection due to its high sensitivity, ease of performance, and use of a single acute-phase serum sample [2].
• The Pan American Health Organization, through its Pan American Zoonoses Center (CEPANZO), distributes the concentrated stock solution of PPD batch RT23 (1 mg ml-1 = 50,000 TU ml-1) to national central laboratories [3].
• In the Americas, PAHO responded to that challenge by calling for the elimination of all morbidity from onchocerciasis from the Region by the year 2007 through mass distribution of ivermectin [4].

High impact information on Pan American Health Organization

• The purpose of this paper is to discuss methods recommended and used by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) to monitor the interruption of indigenous measles transmission in the Region of the Americas [5].
• Three major organizations--the World Health Organization, the Pan American Health Organization, and the National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards working with the College of American Pathologists--have ongoing programs aimed at the preparation of these reference sera [6].
• As part of its 100th-anniversary celebration, the Pan American Health Organization has named 12 persons as "Public Health Heroes of the Americas" in recognition of their noteworthy contributions to public health in the Region of the Americas [7].
• There is a strong justification for the new "Out of the Shadows" initiative, in which the International League Against Epilepsy, the International Bureau for Epilepsy, the World Health Organization, and the Pan American Health Organization are working to improve epilepsy health-care services, treatment, and social acceptance [8].
• FAM (5-fluorouracil, doxorubicin, and mitomycin) plus triazinate (FAM-T) in gastric carcinoma: a combined phase II trial of the Mid-Atlantic Oncology Program and the Pan American Health Organization [9].

Biological context of Pan American Health Organization

• As part of its 100th-anniversary celebration, the Pan American Health Organization has named 12 persons as "Public Health Heroes of the Americas" in recognition of their noteworthy contributions to public health in the Region of the Americas [10].

Associations of Pan American Health Organization with chemical compounds

• In response to Resolution No. 7 of the Fifth Caribbean Health Minsters Conference of February 1973, the Executive Secretary convened a meeting of a stering committee comprising members of staff of CFNI, the Faculty of Medicine, U.W.I., PAHO, WHO and FAO [11].

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