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International Issues: Expanding neurologic education to resource-poor countries: Lessons from Moi Teaching Hospital
It is well-recognized that there is a disparity in health care resources and availability in low- and middle-income countries, often due to a combination of poverty, lack of clean water and adequate nutrition, and political conflict. Yet it seems less attention is given to challenges specific to the provision of medical education in such developing nations. Besides war, famine, drought, and the AIDS epidemic, eastern African nations carry a heavy burden of neurologic disease1 and insufficient infectious disease programs,2 coupled with a paucity of subspecialty-trained providers. Over the past decade, there has been increas...
Source: Neurology - January 20, 2014 Category: Neurology Authors: Cortez, M. M., Wold, J. J., Renner, D. R. Tags: All Health Services Research, All Education RESIDENT AND FELLOW SECTION Source Type: research

Is The Shocking News of the Sugar Industry's Influence Over Harvard Researchers Really Shocking?
Hey, Sugar, pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. Today, the Journal of the American Medical Association dropped an alleged bombshell when it disclosed that the sugar industry lobby influenced research on coronary heart disease by effectively bribing Harvard researchers to promote the theory that dietary fat, and not sugar, causes heart disease. The story is trending on Facebook at this very moment, and the JAMA Facebook post states that "Policymaking committees should consider giving less weight to food industry-funded studies, and include mechanistic and animal studies as well as studies appraising the effec...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - September 14, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

CNS Summit 2017 Abstracts of Poster Presentations
Conclusion: This novel technology discriminates and quantifies subtle differences in behavior and neurological impairments in subjects afflicted with neurological injury/disease. KINARM assessments can be incorporated into multi-center trials (e.g., monitoring stroke motor recovery: NCT02928393). Further studies will determine if KINARM Labs can demonstrate a clinical effect with fewer subjects over a shorter trial period. Disclosures/funding: Dr. Stephen Scott is the inventor of KINARM and CSO of BKIN Technologies.   Multiplexed mass spectrometry assay identifies neurodegeneration biomarkers in CSF Presenter: Chelsky...
Source: Innovations in Clinical Neuroscience - November 1, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Authors: ICNS Online Editor Tags: Assessment Tools biomarkers Cognition Current Issue Drug Development General Genetics Medical Issues Neurology Patient Assessment Psychopharmacology Scales Special Issues Supplements Trial Methodology clinical trials CNS Su Source Type: research

South African clinical practice guidelines: A landscape analysis.
CONCLUSION: Accessing CPGs was challenging and required extensive searching. SA has many contributors to CPG development from the public and private sectors and across disciplines, but there is no formal co-ordination or prioritisation of topics for CPG development. Different versions of the CPGs were identified and key quality items were poorly reported, potentially affecting the usability and credibility of those available. There was substantial variation in CPG comprehensiveness and methodological approach. Establishing a national CPG co-ordinating unit responsible for developing standards for CPG development along with...
Source: South African Medical Journal - December 23, 2017 Category: African Health Tags: S Afr Med J Source Type: research

Prosthetic treatment in the adult French population: Prevalence and relation with demographic, socioeconomic and medical characteristics.
CONCLUSION: This study reveals social, economic and medical inequalities in fixed and removable prosthetic treatment among adults in France. PMID: 31204147 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Revue d Epidemiologie et de Sante Publique - June 19, 2019 Category: Epidemiology Tags: Rev Epidemiol Sante Publique Source Type: research

The Autopsy, a Fading Practice, Revealed Secrets of COVID-19
By MARION RENAULT Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The COVID-19 pandemic has helped revive the autopsy. When the virus first arrived in U.S. hospitals, doctors could only guess what was causing its strange constellation of symptoms: What could explain why patients were losing their sense of smell and taste, developing skin rashes, struggling to breathe and reporting memory loss on top of flu-like coughs and aches? At hospital morgues, which have been steadily losing prominence and funding over several decades, pathologists were busily dissecting the disease’s first victims — and finding some answers. “W...
Source: JEMS: Journal of Emergency Medical Services News - December 27, 2020 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: JEMS Staff Tags: AP News Coronavirus Source Type: news

Financial hardship among rural cancer survivors: An analysis of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey
This study examined contrasts in financial hardship among 1419 rural and urban cancer survivors using the 2011 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey supplement – The Effects of Cancer and Its Treatment on Finances. We combined four questions, creating a measure of material financial hardship, and examined one question on financial worry. We conducted multivariable logistic regression analyses, which produced odds ratios (OR) for factors associated with financial hardship and worry, and then generated average adjusted predicted probabilities. We focused on rural and urban differences classified by metropolitan statistical area...
Source: Preventive Medicine - November 13, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research

Suboptimal access to primary healthcare among street-based sex workers in southwest Switzerland
Conclusions This vulnerable population comprises SSWs who, whether through mobility, insufficient education or language barriers, are unaware of services they are entitled to. With half the participants reporting no HIV testing, there is a need to enhance awareness of available facilities as well as to increase provision and uptake of HIV testing.
Source: Postgraduate Medical Journal - June 18, 2013 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Darling, K. E. A., Gloor, E., Ansermet-Pagot, A., Vaucher, P., Durieux-Paillard, S., Bodenmann, P., Cavassini, M. Tags: Emergency medicine, Sexual transmitted infections (viral), General practice / family medicine, Immunology (including allergy), Drugs: infectious diseases, HIV/AIDS Original article Source Type: research

Kyrgyzstan: Health system review.
Authors: Ibraimova A, Akkazieva B, Ibraimov A, Manzhieva E, Rechel B Abstract Kyrgyzstan has undertaken wide-ranging reforms of its health system in a challenging socioeconomic and political context. The country has developed two major health reform programmes after becoming independent: Manas (1996 to 2006) and Manas Taalimi (2006 to 2010). These reforms introduced comprehensive structural changes to the health care delivery system with the aim of strengthening primary health care, developing family medicine and restructuring the hospital sector.Major service delivery improvements have included the introduction of...
Source: Health systems in transition - November 11, 2014 Category: Health Management Tags: Health Syst Transit Source Type: news

Analysis of College Students ’ Personal Health Information Activities: Online Survey
Conclusions: College years are a significant time for students to learn decision-making skills for maintaining information, a key aspect of health records, as well as for educators to provide appropriate educational and decision aids in the environment of learning as independent adults. Our study will contribute to better understand knowledge about specific skills and perceptions for college students’ practice of effective PHIM throughout their lives.
Source: Journal of Medical Internet Research - April 20, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: Sujin Kim Donghee Sinn Sue Yeon Syn Source Type: research

NHIF Reform Crtical to Affordable Health For All in Kenya
Cabinet Secretary Sicily Kariuki pushing hard for UHC in Kenya. Credit: MOH KenyaBy Felipe Jaramillo and Siddharth ChatterjeeNAIROBI, Kenya, Mar 27 2019 (IPS) Consider this. One million Kenyans fall into poverty every year due to catastrophic out of pocket health expenditures. For the almost four in every five Kenyans who lack access to medical insurance, the fear that they are just an accident or serious illness away from destitution. Ill health is easily the most destructive wrecking-ball to any country’s plans for sustainable development, which validates President Uhuru Kenyatta’s commitment to deliver Universal He...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - March 27, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Felipe Jaramillo and Siddharth Chatterjee Tags: Africa Development & Aid Economy & Trade Education Featured Headlines Health Poverty & SDGs TerraViva United Nations Women's Health Source Type: news

NHIF Reform Critical to Affordable Health For All in Kenya
Cabinet Secretary Sicily Kariuki pushing hard for UHC in Kenya. Credit: MOH KenyaBy Felipe Jaramillo and Siddharth ChatterjeeNAIROBI, Kenya, Mar 27 2019 (IPS) Consider this. One million Kenyans fall into poverty every year due to catastrophic out of pocket health expenditures. For the almost four in every five Kenyans who lack access to medical insurance, the fear that they are just an accident or serious illness away from destitution. Ill health is easily the most destructive wrecking-ball to any country’s plans for sustainable development, which validates President Uhuru Kenyatta’s commitment to deliver Universal He...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - March 27, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Felipe Jaramillo and Siddharth Chatterjee Tags: Africa Development & Aid Economy & Trade Education Featured Headlines Health Poverty & SDGs TerraViva United Nations Women's Health Source Type: news

Providing Hearing Education and Resources for Underserved Populations (HEAR-UP) in our Local Neighborhoods
This article describes one such project that has been in place in Pittsburgh, PA, for the past 4 years. This service results from collaboration across a collection of healthcare, community service, charitable, and educational organizations. The resources necessary to create similarly sourced services in other U.S. locations are described. Challenges and solutions for this local form of humanitarian audiology are discussed. [...] Thieme Medical Publishers 333 Seventh Avenue, New York, NY 10001, USA.Article in Thieme eJournals: Table of contents  |  Abstract  |  Full text
Source: Seminars in Hearing - April 6, 2020 Category: Audiology Authors: Coyan, Kathleen Costigan Mormer, Elaine Tags: Review Article Source Type: research

Behavioral and Clinical Characteristics of Persons Receiving Medical Care for HIV Infection - Medical Monitoring Project, United States, 2009.
B Prevention, CDC Abstract Problem: As of December 31, 2009, an estimated 864,748 persons were living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in the 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and six U.S.-dependent areas. Whereas HIV surveillance programs in the United States collect information about persons with a diagnosis of HIV infection, supplemental surveillance systems collect in-depth information about the behavioral and clinical characteristics of persons receiving outpatient medical care for HIV infection. These data are needed to reduce HIV-related morbidity and mortality and HIV transmission....
Source: MMWR Surveill Summ - June 20, 2014 Category: Epidemiology Authors: Blair JM, Fagan JL, Frazier EL, Do A, Bradley H, Valverde EE, McNaghten A, Beer L, Zhang S, Huang P, Mattson CL, Freedman MS, Johnson CH, Sanders CC, Spruit-McGoff KE, Heffelfinger JD, Skarbinski J, National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and Tags: MMWR Surveill Summ Source Type: research

Who Leaves the Hospital Against Medical Advice in the Orthopaedic Setting?
CONCLUSIONS: Our data can be used to promptly identify orthopaedic inpatients at higher risk of self-discharge on admission and target interventions to optimize treatment adherence. Strategies to enhance physician communication skills among patients with low health literacy, improve cultural sensitivity, and proactively address substance abuse issues early during hospital admission may aid in preventing discharge dilemmas and merit additional study. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: Level III, prognostic study. See the Instructions for Authors for complete description of levels of evidence. PMID: 25187333 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research - September 4, 2014 Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Menendez ME, van Dijk CN, Ring D Tags: Clin Orthop Relat Res Source Type: research