Epilepsy care in the southern Caribbean.
In conclusion, patients with epilepsy in the southern Caribbean have excellent access to government clinics and hospitals, but AED choices are limited. Local medical providers reported that the major limitations in care were lack of specialty care, lack of imaging and EEG services, financial barriers to care, long wait times for care, and limited access to additional AEDs.
PMID: 26312988 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Epilepsy and Behaviour)
Source: Epilepsy and Behaviour - August 21, 2015 Category: Neurology Authors: Krauss G, Sandy S, Corbin DO, Bird-Compton J, Jack F, Nelson B, Jalonen TO, Ali A, Fortuné T, Clarke D, Okolie J, Cervenka MC Tags: Epilepsy Behav Source Type: research
Pereskia aculeata Miller leaves present in vivo topical anti-inflammatory activity in models of acute and chronic dermatitis
Conclusions: This study showed that the acute and chronic anti-inflammatory activity of P. aculeata leaves is very promising, and corroborates to better understand their ethnopharmacological applications. Graphical abstract (Source: Journal of Ethnopharmacology)
Source: Journal of Ethnopharmacology - August 8, 2015 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: research
Barriers and facilitators to physical activity amongst overweight and obese women in an Afro-Caribbean population: A qualitative study
Conclusions:
It is important to understand why women face barriers to physical activity, particularly in low-resourced settings, and to investigate how this could be addressed. This study highlights the role that gender norms and health beliefs play in shaping experiences of physical activity. In addition, structural barriers reflect a mix of resource-scarce and resource-rich factors which are likely to be seen in a wide variety of developing contexts. (Source: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity)
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity - July 28, 2015 Category: Nutrition Authors: Miriam AlvaradoMadhuvanti MurphyCornelia Guell Source Type: research
Inbound medical tourism to Barbados: a qualitative examination of local lawyers’ prospective legal and regulatory concerns
Conclusions:
Two predominant legal and ethical concerns associated with medical tourism in Barbados were raised by participants and are reflected in the literature: the ability of medical tourists to recover medical malpractice for adverse events; and the effects of medical tourism on access to health care in the destination country. However, the participants also identified several topics that have received much less attention in the legal and ethical literature. Overall this analysis reveals that lawyers, at least in Barbados, have an important role to play in the medical tourism sector beyond litigation – particularly...
Source: BMC Health Services Research - July 28, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Valorie CrooksI. CohenKrystyna AdamsRebecca WhitmoreJeffrey Morgan Source Type: research
Spirituality, gender, and drug use among students from one University in Barbados
The research aimed to clarify the relationships between spirituality, gender, and drug use among undergraduate students of one university in Barbados. A quota sample of 250 students was required from the Faculty of Social Sciences as the study was part of a larger multi-centric study involving students from the Faculty of Social Sciences from seven other participating countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. Significant negative relationships were found between a student's level of spirituality and their licit and illicit drug use over the past 12 and three months. Males and females also differed significantly in term...
Source: Texto e Contexto - Enfermagem - July 8, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: research
