Important and Often Forgotten Aspects of Surgical GHE: A Response to "Gynecologic SURGRETE, New Horizons Guyana 2019: An Experience of a Lifetime for Global Health Engagement and Medical Readiness".
Authors: Worlton TJ, Waller SG, Laurent SS, Remick K, Malone DL, Elster EA
PMID: 33253384 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Military Medicine)
Source: Military Medicine - December 1, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Mil Med Source Type: research
[Life course violence, pregnancy experiences, use of alcohol and pemba, in French Guiana women].
CONCLUSIONS: Data on violence in French Guyana show that young people and women declare more often having experienced physical violence, in or out of family life. Young women are overrepresented thus a survey in childbearing women must reveal a high frequency of these events. Our data allow us to go further, by associating this experience of violence and the experience of pregnancy with socio-demographic variables. We can thus see that the overall average obtained on a large number of indicators is smoothed by extremely contrasting situations, of women feeling safe or not, well followed or not for this pregnancy, etc. The ...
Source: L Encephale - November 17, 2020 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Encephale Source Type: research
Authors' Response to Letter to the Editor "Important and Often Forgotten Aspects of Surgical GHE: A Response to Gynecologic SURGRETE, New Horizons Guyana 2019: An Experience of a Lifetime for Global Health Engagement and Medical Readiness".
Authors: Dengler KL, Isaacs S, Charron BL, Massengill JC
PMID: 33180926 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Military Medicine)
Source: Military Medicine - November 14, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Mil Med Source Type: research
Gender equality and health equity: strategic lessons from country experiences of gender mainstreaming in health.
Conclusions: Successful GM requires a more strategic and transformational agenda, developed and implemented in coordination with NWMs and civil society and with reference to external bodies (e.g. Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women) to go beyond process, with clearer distinction between gender sensitivity and gender transformation, and definition of expected results and indicators to measure advances. These then could be better documented and systematized, enabling GM to be more broadly understood and operationalized as a concrete instrument towards health equity.
PMID: 33165446 [PubMed] (S...
Source: Pan American Journal of Public Health - November 11, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Rev Panam Salud Publica Source Type: research
Global Pathology Training in Residency and Fellowship: A Mutually Beneficial Intervention.
CONCLUSIONS.—: We demonstrate that collaboration between US trainees and laboratories in resource-restricted settings, in the form of a global health elective, is mutually beneficial.
PMID: 33147628 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine)
Source: Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine - November 4, 2020 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: Goetz L, Huggins K, Greaves W, Peters T, Johncilla M Tags: Arch Pathol Lab Med Source Type: research
Pseudoflowers produced by Fusarium xyrophilum on yellow-eyed grass (Xyris spp.) in Guyana: a novel floral mimicry system?
Abstract
Pseudoflower formation is arguably the rarest outcome of a plant-fungus interaction. Here we report on a novel putative floral mimicry system in which the pseudoflowers are composed entirely of fungal tissues in contrast to modified leaves documented in previous mimicry systems. Pseudoflowers on two perennial Xyris species (yellow-eyed grass, X. setigera and X. surinamensis) collected from savannas in Guyana were produced by Fusarium xyrophilum, a novel Fusarium species. These pseudoflowers mimic Xyris flowers in gross morphology and are ultraviolet reflective. Axenic cultures of F. xyrophilum pro...
Source: Fungal Genetics and Biology - September 17, 2020 Category: Biology Authors: Laraba I, McCormick SP, Vaughan MM, Proctor RH, Busman M, Appell M, O'Donnell K, Felker FC, Catherine Aime M, Wurdack KJ Tags: Fungal Genet Biol Source Type: research
Conducting an international curriculum review meeting in the age of COVID-19.
Abstract
SUMMARY: The Canadian Network for International Surgery (CNIS) hosted a workshop in May of 2020 with a goal of critically evaluating Trauma Team Training courses. The workshop was held virtually because of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Twenty-three participants attended from 8 countries: Canada, Guyana, Kenya, Nigeria, Switzerland, Tanzania, Uganda and the United States. More participants were able to attend the virtual meeting than the traditional in-person meetings. Web-based videoconference software was used, participants presented prerecorded PowerPoint videos, and question...
Source: Canadian Journal of Surgery - August 31, 2020 Category: Surgery Authors: Lett R, Bola R, Boniface R, Eamer G, Gathecha G Tags: Can J Surg Source Type: research
Pioneering Study on Rhopalurus crassicauda Scorpion Venom: Isolation and Characterization of the Major Toxin and Hyaluronidase
This study is the first to explore the venom content of the unexplored scorpion species Rhopalurus crassicauda, which inhabits exclusively the northernmost state of Brazil, named Roraima, and southern region of Guyana. Here, we pioneer the fractionation of the R. crassicauda venom and isolated and characterized a novel scorpion beta-neurotoxin, designated Rc1, and a monomeric hyaluronidase. R. crassicauda venom and Rc1 (6,882 Da) demonstrated pro-inflammatory activities in vitro and a nociceptive response in vivo. Moreover, Rc1 toxin showed specificity for activating Nav1.4, Nav1.6, and BgNav1 voltage-gated ion channels. T...
Source: Frontiers in Immunology - August 19, 2020 Category: Allergy & Immunology Source Type: research
Understanding the distribution of bushmeat hunting effort across landscapes by testing hypotheses about human foraging.
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PMID: 32812649 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Conservation Biology)
Source: Conservation Biology - August 18, 2020 Category: Biology Authors: Brodie JF, Fragoso JMV Tags: Conserv Biol Source Type: research
A survey of self-reported research knowledge in Guyanese, Rwandan, Zambian, and Ethiopian anesthesia residents
(Source: Canadian Journal of Anesthesia)
Source: Canadian Journal of Anesthesia - August 13, 2020 Category: Anesthesiology Source Type: research
A case of concomitant intussusception and appendicitis managed at a regional hospital in Guyana.
We present such a case in an eight-month-old infant who required successful emergency laparotomy with right hemicolectomy and primary anastomosis. Appendicitis was confirmed histologically.
PMID: 32689898 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Tropical Doctor)
Source: Tropical Doctor - July 19, 2020 Category: Tropical Medicine Authors: Algu TK Tags: Trop Doct Source Type: research
Gynecologic SURGRETE, New Horizons Guyana 2019: An Experience of a Lifetime for Global Health Engagement and Medical Readiness.
Authors: Charron BL, Dengler KL, Nguyen BT, Coggins A, Massengill JC, Tomkins TJ
PMID: 32666118 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Military Medicine)
Source: Military Medicine - July 17, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Mil Med Source Type: research
The impact of imported malaria by gold miners in Roraima: characterizing the spatial dynamics of autochthonous and imported malaria in an urban region of Boa Vista.
CONCLUSIONS The increase in imported malaria cases circulating in the west region of Boa Vista, where there are positive breeding sites for the main vectors, may represent a potential condition for increased autochthonous malaria transmission in this space.
PMID: 32667459 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz)
Source: Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz - July 16, 2020 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Louzada J, de Almeida NCV, de Araujo JLP, Silva J, Carvalho TM, Escalante AA, Oliveira-Ferreira J Tags: Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz Source Type: research
Digging for care-seeking behaviour among gold miners in the Guyana hinterland: a qualitative doer non-doer analysis of social and behavioural motivations for malaria testing and treatment
Although Guyana has made significant progress toward malaria control, limited access to malaria testing and treatment services threatens those gains. Mining activities create breeding environments for mosquito... (Source: Malaria Journal)
Source: Malaria Journal - July 6, 2020 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Shirley D. Yan, Jennifer Orkis, Saifra Khan Sohail, Sean Wilson, TrishAnn Davis and J. Douglas Storey Tags: Research Source Type: research
[Epidemiology of prostate cancer (PCa) in French Guyana (FG) - Preliminary results].
CONCLUSION: In spite of young population, less exposure to environmental risk factors and high rate of racial mixing, the early PCa diagnosis is still a challenge in FG. The observed incidence and mortality rates suggest underestimation of PCa cases and too late specific care what is also suggested by adverse pathological and biological characteristics of the tumors at the time of diagnosis.
LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: 3.
PMID: 32493660 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Progres en Urologie)
Source: Progres en Urologie - June 5, 2020 Category: Urology & Nephrology Tags: Prog Urol Source Type: research
