Oral Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP)
A Johns Hopkins University Affiliate
The Oral PrEP eLearning Tool for Clinicians course provides instructions for managing PrEP services in accordance with the information in the WHO Implementation Tool for Pre-exposure Prophylaxis of HIV Infection. The course is for practicing clinicians around the globe who currently have a client population at high-risk for c....
Chronic Pain Management
Mary Kathleen Ebener PhD, RN & Dorothy Caputo, MA, BSN, RN & Bernadette Marie Makar, MSN, NP-C, APRN-C
2 Hours
This activity is designed to change health provider attitudes on chronic pain and willingness to offer comprehensive assessment and comprehensive treatment.
Conference Highlights: WISC 2016
Chris Cole
0.5 Hours
New research was presented at WISC 2016, the World Allergy Organization International Scientific Conference, from December 6 to 9 in Jerusalem, Israel. The features in this pdf highlight some of the studies presented at the conference
Conference Highlights: CHEST 2016
Chris Cole
0.5 Hours
New research was presented at CHEST 2016, the annual international scientific assembly of the American College of Chest Physicians, from October 22 to 26, 2016 in Los Angeles. The features below highlight some of the studies emerging from the conference.
Venous Thromboembolism Prophylaxis in the Acute Care and Post Hospitalization Setting
Steven L. Cohn, MD, FACP, SFHM
1 Hours
This activity is intended for hospitalists, general internists, and subspecialists in internal medicine.
Sexual Harassment Prevention Training for Illinois Optometrists
Ms. Beth Karmis and Ms. Maritza Lopez
This course is in fulfillment of the Department of Professional Regulation Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois Sec. 2501-15.5. The content includes the definition of “Sexual Harassment”. It addresses both the types and forms of conduct that constitute sexual harassment. The course discusses what an optometrist shou....
Sickle Cell Disease: Pathophysiology and Clinical Manifestations in Children and Adolescents
The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) and Ghana College of Nurses and Midwives
In this course, Sickle Cell Disease: Pathophysiology and Clinical Manifestations in Children and Adolescents, you will learn about what is happening at the microscopic level in Sickle Cell Disease (SCD). Through interactive activities, you will learn about how SCD causes problems in the body, and how these might present. This c....
Sickle Cell Disease: Promoting Health for Children and Adolescents
By The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) and Ghana College of Nurses and Midwives
Sickle Cell Disease: Promoting Health for Children and Adolescents explores the lived experience of children and adolescents with sickle cell disease and their families. The course features interactive content that will provide healthcare workers with the knowledge they need to improve care, quality of life, and health outcomes....
Common Cancers in the Dental Patient Population
StJohn Crean, Rishi Bhandari
0.5 Hours
This session describes the signs and symptoms that may manifest in patients diagnosed with cancers and looks at the impact of important cancers on the provision of dental care.
Prise en charge de saignements graves après l’accouchement
GHM
Managing Severe Bleeding After Birth - Prise en charge de saignements graves après l’accouchement
Understanding Diabetes and Hypertension: Symptoms, Risk Factors and Treatment
The International Rescue Committee Non-Communicable Diseases Consortium Project
Medical Aid Films This animation aims to help community health workers in humanitarian settings gain a better understanding of two common non-communicable diseases - diabetes and hypertension - including their symptoms, associated risk factors and treatment. It was produced for The International Rescue Committee Non-Communicabl....
Sickle Cell Disease: Acute Management in Children and Adolescents
By The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) and Ghana College of Nurses and Midwives
This course is part of a series on Sickle Cell Diseases by the SickKids-Ghana Paediatric Nursing Education Partnership. The series was developed for healthcare workers (nurses, community health nurses, midwives, and physicians) in Ghana, but has broad relevance for healthcare workers in the region and globally. It is recommended....
Developing a Transition Programme
Janet McDonagh, Anita Morgan and Marcelle Sousa
0.5 Hours
This session considers the key steps involved in the development of a transitional care programme for young people with long-term conditions and/or disabilities.
Case Report: Neuroleptic malignant syndrome in a HIV-positive patient
Sibi Joseph,Jerry George,Mongezi Tau,Lourdes de Fatima Ibanez-Valdes,Thozama Dubula,Humberto Foyaca-Sibat
Most authors define neuroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS) as a rare, yet life-threatening, idiosyncratic reaction to medications, mostly but not limited to neuroleptic drugs (dopamine receptor antagonists). NMS was initially described by Delay and colleagues in 1960, who noticed it in patients treated with high-potency antipsycho....
Case Report: rare hybrid lesion of a central giant cell granuloma within a juvenile ossifying fibroma
Hadeer Rizk Saad,Noura M. Kamal,Hatem W. Amer
Central giant cell granuloma (CGCG) is believed to be an entity exclusive to jaw bones. The term “benign fibro-osseous lesions” generically describes an aggregate of pathologies that are characterized by replacement of normal bone with a highly cellular connective tissue associated with newly formed bone trabeculae. Radiographic....
Development of a simple and valid nutrition screening tool for pediatric hospitalized patients with acute illness
Hoda Atef Abdelsattar Ibrahim,Rasha Abdel-Raouf,Ahmed S. Zeid,Eman H. Elsebaie,Shaimaa Abdalaleem,Aya A. Amin,Hanna Aboulghar
Nutrition is an essential factor in the development, growth, and functioning of any child. Good nutritional status provides energy and nutrients which are essential to maintain our life and promote social, physical, emotional, and cognitive development. Childhood malnutrition is known to be a global health concern as it is compl....
Knowledge and compliance with Covid-19 infection prevention and control measures among health workers in regional referral hospitals in northern Uganda: a cross-sectional online survey
Sharon Bright Amanya,Richard Nyeko,Bonniface Obura,Joy Acen,Caroline Nabasirye,Rebecca Nakaziba,Florence Oyella,Victor Afayo,Mark Okwir
Coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) is arguably the greatest global health threat of our time. As of January 24, 2021, 19,462,112 people were infected globally, with 2,112,759 deaths. The World Health Organization (WHO) issued interim guidance on Covid-19 IPC that emphasized several measures, including applying standard precauti....
In vitro regulation of reactive oxygen species formation in red blood cells of homozygous sickle cell patients using Vitamin C
Ogechukwu Egini,Edouard Guillaume,Titilope Adeyemo,Chiemeziem Nwanyanwu,Fnu Shweta,Eric Jaffe
Sickle cell anemia is a single-nucleotide polymorphism due to substitution of glutamic acid by valine at position 6 of the B-globin chain. ROS formation is maximal during the reperfusion state when there is increased formation of methemoglobin and superoxide ion due to electron transfers that occur between the heme iron and oxyg....
Knowledge of pastoralists on livestock diseases and exposure assessment to brucellosis within rural and peri-urban areas in Kajiado, Kenya
Joshua Onono,Penina Mutua,Philip Kitala,Peter Gathura
Brucellosis is a neglected bacterial zoonosis with global distribution, and it has been reported in 56 countries with more than 500,000 new human cases reported annually (. In Kenya, brucellosis was first reported in 1916 with the first case confirmed in a laboratory in 1931 (. The pastoralist communities are highly dependent on....
Streptococcus pneumoniae Serotype Epidemiology among PCV-10 Vaccinated and Unvaccinated Children at Gertrude’s Children’s Hospital, Nairobi County: A Cross-Sectional Study
Michael Walekhwa,Margaret Muturi,Revathi Gunturu,Eucharia Kenya,Beatrice Kabera
is a friendly gram positive inhabitant of the human upper respiratory tract but can be highly invasive in some conditions (. Some strains also have a greater potential to develop antibiotic resistance than others (. vaccines protect against several severe forms of pneumococcal disease, such as meningitis, pneumonia and bacterem....
Revisiting early-stage COVID-19 strategy options
Philip Machanick
When I first submitted this paper in May 2020, I wrote with some urgency because I believed the issue of asymptomatic transmission of COVID-19 was not receiving the attention it deserved, and updated the paper before any reviews were in. All the versions of the paper, read in conjunction of the reviews, form a living review, sho....
Continuous and intermittent exposure of neonatal rat calvarial cells to PTHrP (1-36) inhibits bone nodule mineralization in vitro by downregulating bone sialoprotein expression via the cAMP signaling pathway
Suzan A Kamel,John A Yee
Parathyroid-hormone-related protein (PTHrP) is the causative factor of humoral hypercalcemia of malignancy. The amino terminus of PTHrP has strong homology with the comparable region of parathyroid hormone (PTH). In several tissues, including bone, it has been reported that PTHrP and PTH1R mRNAs and/or proteins are expressed by....
Post-Ebola Community Health Worker programme performance in Kenema District, Sierra Leone: A long way to go!
Harold Thomas,Katrina Hann,Mohamed Vandi,Joseph Bengalie Sesay,Koi Sylvester Alpha,Robinah Najjemba
The effect of the 2014–2015 West African Ebola outbreak on Community Health Worker (CHW) services in Kenema district, Sierra Leone, was assessed through a retrospective cross-sectional study comparing CHW reporting and services before (June 2013-April 2014), during (June 2014-April 2015) and post-outbreak (November 2015-April 20....
Could night-guards be used as a simple method to detect leached-elements from dental restorations intra-orally? A study on amalgam restorations
Rasha Mohamed Abdelraouf
Determination of leached-elements from dental restorations has been investigated as a result of exposure to oral conditions. On the other hand,. Yet, measuring the released elements in humans may be best. Several studies quantified the excretion of mercury in urine, hair and nails of patients with dental amalgam-restorations and....
Non-AIDS defining malignancies in the combination ART era: immunological and socio-behavioral risk factors
Yann Ruffieux,Frédérique Chammartin,Anita Feller,Kurt Schmidlin,Sabine Rohrmann,Katharina Staehelin,Christine Bouchardy,Heiner C. Bucher,Barbara Hasse,Matthias Cavassini,Alexandra Calmy,Gilles Wandeler,Alexandra Scherrer,Julia Bohlius,Matthias Egger
In high-income countries, life expectancy of people living with HIV (PLWHIV) on combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) is approaching that of the general population. An analysis of causes of death in the Data collection on Adverse events of Anti-HIV Drugs (a collaboration of eleven HIV cohort studies from Europe, the USA and....