Cells to Society: "Gold Standard" Chicago Parent Program / Research News
This study was conducted to enhance the rate of advance care planning conversations and documentation by improving knowledge, attitudes, and skills of caregivers.      Read more   Violence and Trauma ...
Source: Johns Hopkins University and Health Systems Archive - October 18, 2019 Category: Nursing Source Type: news

Africa: Johnson & Johnson Must Halve Price of Lifesaving TB Drug Bedaquiline
[MSF] M édecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has launched a global campaign calling on pharmaceutical corporation Johnson& Johnson (J&J) to lower the price of its anti-tuberculosis medicine bedaquiline to no more than US$1 per day for people everywhere who need it, in order to allow scale-up of drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) treatment and reduce deaths.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - October 10, 2019 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Africa: Urgent Boost and Reality Check Needed for HIV and TB Funding
[MSF] After a decade of strong commitments to fight the twin epidemics of HIV and tuberculosis (TB), a decline in international funding and the rapid shifting of the financial burden to affected countries is in danger of reversing lifesaving gains and causing an 'epidemic rebound' in some countries, warns a new report released by M édecins Sans Frontières (MSF) ahead of the Global Fund's funding replenishment conference.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - October 7, 2019 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Congo-Kinshasa: Vaccinating Against Ebola - the Challenges of Containing the Outbreak
[MSF] Esther only winces slightly when a doctor on Doctors Without Borders/M édecins Sans Frontières' (MSF) vaccination team injects the Ebola vaccine called rVSV-ZEBOV into her left upper arm in Kimbangu, a community in the southwest of Beni--one of the recurring hotspots of the current Ebola epidemic in North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Justi n*, her two-and-a-half year-old son, bursts into tears when he sees a new syringe being filled, and only calms down a few minutes
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - October 3, 2019 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Ticagrelor Sans Aspirin Trial Answers Some Questions About DAPT Ticagrelor Sans Aspirin Trial Answers Some Questions About DAPT
Robert Byrne sees some immediate clinical implications for the study favoring ticagrelor monotherapy over dual therapy with aspirin, but questions remain about broad applicability.theheart.org on Medscape
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - October 3, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Cardiology Commentary Source Type: news

How Slow Moving Asbestos Regulations Compromise Health
By Sarah WolvertonWALLINGFORD, CT, US, Sep 24 2019 (IPS) Last year, the United States introduced a new asbestos rule that was received both positively and negatively and Canada banned the mineral altogether. Countries like the U.K. and Australia continue to struggle with the health implications of historic asbestos use, despite both having bans for several years. In contrast, nations like Russia and Vietnam continue to manufacture and use the mineral frequently.  Asbestos is a substance that was used throughout history as an additive in many products to provide heat and fire resistance. It fell out of favor around the wor...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - September 24, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Sarah Wolverton Tags: Development & Aid Environment Headlines Health Source Type: news

Essential Obstetric and Newborn Care: Practical Guide for Midwives, Doctors with Obstetrics Training and Health Care Personnel Who Deal with Obstetric Emergencies; 2019 Edition
Source: Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF). Published: 9/12/2019. This 252-page guide is the 2019 update of the 2015 edition, and is intended for midwives, doctors with obstetrics training, and health care personnel faced with obstetric emergencies. It describes essential routine and emergency obstetric care; diagnosis and monitoring of pregnancy; prevention or management of complications of pregnancy and delivery; postpartum maternal and newborn care; and termination of pregnancy. (PDF)
Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - September 12, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

Management of a Cholera Epidemic: Practical Guide for Doctors, Nurses, Laboratory Technicians, Medical Auxiliaries, Water and Sanitation Specialists and Logisticians
Source: Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF). Published: 9/11/2019. This 196-page guide is intended for medical and non-medical staff responding to a cholera outbreak, and attempts to provide concrete answers to the questions and problems faced by staff. It includes various practical tools in the appendices to facilitate activities (e.g., water quality tests, job descriptions, and documents). The toolbox also contains additional tools in editable formats (e.g., individual patient file, cholera case register, and pictograms). (PDF)
Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - September 11, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

Picturing health: health services in refugee camps are helping South Sudanese women tell their stories of sexual violence - Ohanesian A.
The M édecins Sans Frontières (MSF) sexual violence and mental health clinic in the Omugo settlement in the Rhino camp extension looks similar to the other refugee camp structures in northern Uganda, which are home to hundreds of thousands of South Sud...
Source: SafetyLit - September 7, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

Dapagliflozin: New HF Therapy, Even Sans Diabetes Dapagliflozin: New HF Therapy, Even Sans Diabetes
Significant reductions in heart failure events and mortality associated with the diabetes drug in the randomized trial point to a new era in the treatment of heart failure, experts say.Medscape Medical News
Source: Medscape Cardiology Headlines - September 1, 2019 Category: Cardiology Tags: Cardiology News Source Type: news

Nigeria: North-East, a Conglomerate of Garrison Towns, Says MSF
[This Day] Maiduguri -M édecins Sans Frontières, otherwise called Doctors Without Borders, has complained that the Northeast is a conglomerate of "garrison towns", that has further traumatised internally displaced persons, mostly children.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - August 28, 2019 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Chad: An Epidemiological Response to Cholera in the Lake Chad Basin
[MSF] The rainy season arrived several weeks ago in West and Central Africa, bringing with it seasonal diseases. Cases of cholera have already been identified in northern Cameroon, where M édecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is carefully monitoring the situation. A team of epidemiologists in Dakar is supporting MSF in response to this latest outbreak and other regional epidemics. Epidemiologist Franck Ale explains the challenges of their work.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - August 21, 2019 Category: African Health Source Type: news

A ‘Cure’ for Ebola but Will it Stop the Outbreak if People Won’t Get Treatment?
Health workers inside a "CUBE" talk to an Ebola patient, while a nurse consults a chart outside. ALIMA Ebola Treatment Centre, Beni, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Two drugs have been found to successfully treat the Ebola virus. Aid agencies have welcomed the news saying it allows communities to access early treatment. Courtesy: World Health Organisation (WHO)By Issa Sikiti da SilvaCOTONOU, Benin, Aug 20 2019 (IPS) While people in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are slowly being made aware that scientists have discovered two drugs that are effective in treating Ebola, letting go of the fear and anxiety that has p...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - August 20, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Issa Sikiti da Silva Tags: Africa Development & Aid Editors' Choice Featured Health Human Rights Humanitarian Emergencies Population Poverty & SDGs Regional Categories TerraViva United Nations Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) ebola Source Type: news

Africa: Promising New Tuberculosis Drug Approved, but Will It Be Affordable?
[MSF] Geneva/New York - M édecins Sans Frontières (MSF) welcomes the approval by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of a combination regimen containing a new drug, pretomanid, for the treatment of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB).
Source: AllAfrica News: Tuberculosis - August 15, 2019 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news

Africa: Third New TB Drug in Over 50 Years Must Be Affordable
[MSF] M édecins Sans Frontières (MSF) welcomed today's approval by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of a combination regimen containing a new drug, pretomanid, for the treatment of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB). As the third new drug developed for TB in over half a century, and the first to be developed as part of a ready-to-use treatment regimen, pretomanid's approval represents another potent tool for tackling difficult-to-treat drug-resistant forms of TB. MSF stressed
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - August 15, 2019 Category: African Health Source Type: news

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