Nigeria: Overcoming Barriers to Kidney Health in Nigeria - - World Kidney Day 2024
[Nigeria Health Watch] Salisu Hauwa, a 33-year-old woman in Gashau, a Local Government Area (LGA) in northern Yobe State, Nigeria was diagnosed with chronic kidney disease (CKD) at the Yobe State University Teaching Hospital (YSUTH) in Damaturu. This diagnosis came weeks after she had been experiencing headaches and continuous vomiting. According to her husband, Abubakar Mohammed, Hauwa's condition worsened, as she was constantly screaming, biting, and attempting to run away from the hospital leading some to believe that she (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - March 13, 2024 Category: African Health Tags: Health and Medicine Nigeria West Africa Source Type: news

Tampa General-USF behavioral health teaching hospital approved
The bill would provide $100 million a year over the next three years to the teaching hospitals, with additional money provided for such things as residency positions for psychiatrists. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - March 7, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: The News Service of Florida Source Type: news

ECR: What makes small ovarian lesions light up like a lightbulb?
Research presented at ECR 2024 suggests that diffusion-weighted MRI (DW-MRI) has value in ovarian cancer treatment planning. In his talk, Max Lahaye, MD, PhD, from the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam discussed his team's findings which showed that DW-MRI could perform a complete primary and interval debulking with high accuracy.Max Lahaye, MD, of the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam presents findings on the clinical impact of dedicated MR staging of ovarian cancer patients during ECR 2024. The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Leiden University Medical Center, and Catharina Ziekenhuis Teaching Hospital ar...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 4, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Liz Carey Tags: MRI Womens Imaging Ob/Gyn Source Type: news

Nigeria: Hardship - One Dies, 5 Others Hospitalised After Eating 'Amala' in Oyo
[Vanguard] As Nigerians groan due to hardship and hunger in the country, a family of six who reportedly ate flour prepared from cassava peels have been rushed to Ladoke Akintola Teaching Hospital in Ogbomoso. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - March 1, 2024 Category: African Health Tags: Food and Agriculture Health and Medicine Nigeria West Africa Source Type: news

Florida behavioral health teaching hospitals backed
The Florida Senate on Wednesday unanimously passed a plan that would designate at least four behavioral health teaching hospitals, as lawmakers look to improve care for people with mental health and substance abuse issues. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - February 28, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Jim Saunders Source Type: news

A deadly viral illness is exploding in West Africa. Researchers are scrambling to figure out why
Reporting for this story was supported by the Pulitzer Center. Irrua, Nigeria, and Kenema, Sierra Leone— Sitting on a bench outside the Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital (ISTH) in Edo state in southwestern Nigeria in September 2023, Muhammed Luqman Dagana recounted his ordeal earlier in the year with Lassa fever, a deadly hemorrhagic disease of West Africa. At first the 33-year-old wasn’t alarmed—his fever, headache, body aches, and cough were innocuous enough. A doctor at his local clinic gave him antibiotics for typhoid fever and antimalarial drugs. But his symptoms persisted, so he tried anoth...
Source: ScienceNOW - February 22, 2024 Category: Science Source Type: news

Florida lawmakers OK behavioral health teaching hospitals
The bill would designate four pilot behavioral health teaching hospitals linked to medical schools, including Tampa General Hospital and the University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - February 14, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Jim Saunders Source Type: news

University of Minnesota announces president finalists, plans for teaching hospitals
The U of M has taken some big steps toward solving two of its biggest challenges — who will lead the school and what to do about the teaching hospitals now controlled by Fairview Health Services. But big questions remain on both issues. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - February 12, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Mark Reilly Source Type: news

NHS crisis saw more than 1.5million A&E patients have to wait at least 12 hours to be treated last year
More than 1.5million patients waited 12 hours after arriving at A&E last year. At Blackpool Teaching Hospitals, one in four patients faced delays of 12 hours in January - the worst in the country. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - February 12, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Major NHS trust sparks anger with cash-hungry plan to charge patients for private treatment on-site: Critics warn 'two-tier' scheme could lead to 'queue-jumping' at hospital with a 90,000-strong waiting list
With the goal of creating an 'income generation source', Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (LTHT) wants to rent out its facilities to a private provider to treat patients willing to pay. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - January 31, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Acupuncture Tied to Improvements in Poststroke Motor Aphasia
FRIDAY, Jan. 26, 2024 -- Acupuncture may improve language function in patients with poststroke motor aphasia, according to a study published online Jan. 22 in JAMA Network Open.Boxuan Li, from the First Teaching Hospital of Tianjin University... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - January 26, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news

Chair quits after trust admits £90m deficit
The chair of a major teaching hospital trust has quit after the organisation saw its deficit double in size. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - January 24, 2024 Category: UK Health Source Type: news

Consent Is Needed Even for Training: Ethicist Consent Is Needed Even for Training: Ethicist
Art Caplan discusses the need for consent from patients who undergo exams when conscious or under anesthesia, even at teaching hospitals.Medscape Business of Medicine (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - January 24, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Family Medicine/Primary Care Commentary Source Type: news

Harvard Teaching Hospital Seeks Retraction of 6 Papers by Top Researchers
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Source: Reuters: Health - January 22, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Epidemiology of poisoning in patients admitted to Afzalipour Teaching Hospital in Kerman, Iran - Shojaei Baghini M, NaseriBooriAbadi T, Rastgoo M, Poornakhaei M, Mohammadpour A.
Background and Objectives: Poisoning is one of the most common causes of hospitalization. The external causes of poisoning and toxic agents differ in age, gender, and occupational groups. It is essential to understand the epidemiological pattern of poisoni... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - January 9, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Home and Consumer Product Safety Source Type: news