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Critical Shortage of Neurologists in the Management of Cerebrovascular Accidents in Developing Countries: The Role of Telemedicine (P6.032)
Conclusion Rising CVA incidence in developing countries needs focused attention for improved outcome. Tele-neurology application is a vital tool for provision of multidisciplinary stroke care.Disclosure: Dr. Asemota has nothing to disclose.
Source: Neurology - April 3, 2016 Category: Neurology Authors: Asemota, J. Tags: Telestroke and Other Innovations and TIA Source Type: research

Environmental Pollution: An Under-recognized Threat to Children’s Health, Especially in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Conclusions Patterns of disease are changing rapidly in LMICs. Pollution-related chronic diseases are becoming more common. This shift presents a particular problem for children, who are proportionately more heavily exposed than are adults to environmental pollutants and for whom these exposures are especially dangerous. Better quantification of environmental exposures and stepped-up efforts to understand how to prevent exposures that cause disease are needed in LMICs and around the globe. To confront the global problem of disease caused by pollution, improved programs of public health monitoring and environmental protecti...
Source: EHP Research - March 1, 2016 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Web Admin Tags: Brief Communication March 2016 Source Type: research

“Kids save lives”–Training school children in cardiopulmonary resuscitation worldwide is now endorsed by the World Health Organization (WHO)
Billions of Euros, Dollars and other currencies are invested in an attempt to reduce deaths from road traffic crashes, yet there are 20 times more deaths following unsuccessful cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). Nevertheless, the amount of money that is spent on research, prevention and treatment of sudden cardiac death and CPR is very limited. There is also considerably less money spent on CPR research in comparison with that invested in diseases such as cancer, myocardial infarction, stroke and heart failure.
Source: Resuscitation - July 21, 2015 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Bernd W. Böttiger, Hugo Van Aken Tags: Editorial Source Type: research

The Quality Of Health Care You Receive Likely Depends On Your Skin Color
Unequal health care continues to be a serious problem for black Americans. More than a decade after the Institute of Medicine issued a landmark report showing that minority patients were less likely to receive the same quality health care as white patients, racial and ethnic disparities continue to plague the U.S. health care system. That report, which was published in 2002, indicated that even when both groups had similar insurance or the same ability to pay for care, black patients received inferior treatment to white patients. This still hold true, according to our investigation into dozens of studies about black health...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - June 29, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Ebola Epidemic Takes a Toll on Sierra Leone's Surgeons
This article originally appeared here on ScientificAmerican.com. Thaim Kamara is 60 years old and would like to retire this year. But he is one of only eight remaining surgeons in Sierra Leone, a west African country of about 6 million people. Kamara lost two friends to Ebola in 2014 -- Martin Salia and Thomas Rogers, fellow surgeons at Connaught Hospital in the capital, Freetown. In light of the dire circumstances, Kamara has postponed his plan to retire. Although the rate of new Ebola infections in Sierra Leone, along with neighboring countries Guinea and Liberia, is finally falling, more than 800 health care personnel...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - February 7, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Exercise for reducing fear of falling in older people living in the community.
CONCLUSIONS: Exercise interventions in community-dwelling older people probably reduce fear of falling to a limited extent immediately after the intervention, without increasing the risk or frequency of falls. There is insufficient evidence to determine whether exercise interventions reduce fear of falling beyond the end of the intervention or their effect on other outcomes. Although further evidence from well-designed randomised trials is required, priority should be given to establishing a core set of outcomes that includes fear of falling for all trials examining the effects of exercise interventions in older people liv...
Source: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews - December 2, 2014 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Kendrick D, Kumar A, Carpenter H, Zijlstra GA, Skelton DA, Cook JR, Stevens Z, Belcher CM, Haworth D, Gawler SJ, Gage H, Masud T, Bowling A, Pearl M, Morris RW, Iliffe S, Delbaere K Tags: Cochrane Database Syst Rev Source Type: research

Emerging Subspecialties in Neurology: Neuropalliative care
Palliative medicine, as defined by World Health Organization, is the specialty that recognizes and attempts to prevent or alleviate physical, social, psychological, and spiritual suffering.1 Understanding the principles of palliative care should be an essential component of neurologic training, as the trajectory of many neurologic illnesses is progressive and incurable.2 Given the delicate nature of many of the conversations that neurologists have with patients at the time of diagnosis or during acute illness and hospitalization, expertise in discussing a patient's wishes, handling difficult conversations, and providing ad...
Source: Neurology - May 26, 2014 Category: Neurology Authors: Robinson, M. T., Barrett, K. M. Tags: Palliation pain, Palliative care RESIDENT AND FELLOW SECTION Source Type: research

Helping Haiti: Addressing the Burden of Neurologic Disease (P4.292)
CONCLUSIONS: With this nationwide collaborative and interdisciplinary approach, we hope to have a dramatic impact on the perceptions and outcomes of neurologic disease and provide a continuous, but dynamic presence in Port au Prince, Haiti while training physicians, nurses, and other team members in global health perspectives.Disclosure: Dr. Santini has nothing to disclose. Dr. Alessi has received personal compensation for activities with CBS Radio, the National Football League Players Association, and Colonial Cooperative Care. Dr. Jones has nothing to disclose. Dr. Etienne has nothing to disclose. Dr. Hohler has nothing to disclose.
Source: Neurology - April 9, 2014 Category: Neurology Authors: Santini, V., Alessi, A., Jones, E., Etienne, M., Hohler, A. Tags: Global Health and Infection Source Type: research

Helping Haiti: Addressing the Burden of Neurologic Disease (I10-2.004)
CONCLUSIONS: With this nationwide collaborative and interdisciplinary approach, we hope to have a dramatic impact on the perceptions and outcomes of neurologic disease and provide a continuous, but dynamic presence in Port au Prince, Haiti while training physicians, nurses, and other team members in global health perspectives.Disclosure: Dr. Santini has nothing to disclose. Dr. Alessi has received personal compensation for activities with CBS Radio, the National Football League Players Association, and Colonial Cooperative Care. Dr. Jones has nothing to disclose. Dr. Etienne has nothing to disclose. Dr. Hohler has nothing to disclose.
Source: Neurology - April 9, 2014 Category: Neurology Authors: Santini, V., Alessi, A., Jones, E., Etienne, M., Hohler, A. Tags: The Global Burden of Neurological Diseases Data Blitz Presentations Source Type: research

Pure OCD: a rude awakening
You mentally undress your friends, Tony Blair, the lollipop lady. Your thoughts are X-rated. You wonder if you're a paedophile – or just losing your mind. A sufferer describes the nightmare – and dark comedy – of living with pure OCDOn a spring night when I was 15 the mental image of a naked child entered my head and the corners of my world folded in. I put down my cutlery. My throat was closing over. Dad sat across from me, 10,000 miles away, and Mum was hunting draughts at the window.Stoned and smiling, my brother sat next to me, resting his elbows on teenage knees too high for the table. He looked sidelong at Mum ...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - August 31, 2013 Category: Science Tags: The Guardian Psychology Sexuality Mental health & wellbeing Society Features Obsessive-compulsive disorder Life and style Source Type: news

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