Malaria in Ethiopia: Progress in control and remaining challenges
Professor Daniel Yilma, MD, PhD; Dr Samuel Girma, MD, MPH, Internist
"Challenges in the management of Malaria" More than 600,000 people still die of malaria every year. The emergence of diagnostic and treatment challenges due to the parasite escaping the detection with commonly used diagnostic tests and becoming resistant to antimalarial drugs has been a great concern. "Malaria Control and Eli....
Professional Clinical Nursing Leadership
Emma Wadey, Sarah Legood, Clare Capito, Amelia Brummitt, Amy George, Ciara Wharton, Dee Harris, Hannah Baker, Joanne Hartley, Lisa Tran, Nick Judge, Shelley Hamilton-McGinty, Yvette Dimes
In March 2021 NHSEI introduced Professional Nurse Advocate (PNA) training across England to support recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. This was to sustain an approach to restorative supervision and staff wellbeing, with the aim of improving staff wellbeing and retention, alongside improved patient outcomes. This programme c....
How to use the WCEA Platform
Samantha Chapman
The WCEA platform has many uses such as searching for courses, taking exams and getting certificates. In this short webinar we will explain how to use the system in detail. This course does NOT award CPD credits.
Critical Leadership Skills Required in Nursing in this Era
Ms Nombulelo Esme Zenani
Nursing is evolving and leaders are faced with many challenges, leadership is essential to ensure quality nursing is provided. The speaker will address the key essential skills required to be able to adapt to the changes.
Malnutrition aiguë Sévère
Dr Endanda Zawadi.
La malnutrition couvre la dénutrition, la malnutrition en matière de micronutriment et le surpoids ; Selon l’OMS, dénutrition joue un rôle dans environ 45% des décès d’enfants âgés de moins de 5ans dans les pays à revenu faible ou intermédiaire. Dans cette séance nous fixerons notre attention sur la malnutrition carentielle ou....
Team Working and Patient Safety
Hilary Cotton
0.50 Hours
This session will demonstrate how effective teamwork is a determining factor in patient safety, and will enable you to ensure that any team you work with is effective and therefore able to provide safer care for the patient.
Demonstrating Personal Qualities: Developing Self-awareness
Wendy Durham
0.50 Hours
This session will discuss the importance of developing self-awareness in healthcare and ways to enhance your own self-awareness in your practice to further your development.
Demonstrating Personal Qualities: Managing Yourself
Wendy Durham
0.50 Hours
This session will explore organising and managing yourself whilst taking account of the needs and priorities of others.
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Covid-19: Pregnancy and the risk of vertical transmission
Rose Maina & Dr. Eunice Ndirangu
COVID-19: Pregnancy and the Risk of Vertical Transmission
From zebrafish heart jogging genes to mouse and human orthologs: using Gene Ontology to investigate mammalian heart development.
Varsha K Khodiyar,Doug Howe,Philippa J Talmud,Ross Breckenridge,Ruth C Lovering
An understanding of heart development is important for the treatment of both congenital and acquired heart disease. The majority of heart development studies use model organisms for ethical and practical reasons. Transparent fish embryos, as well chick embryos, enable the developing heart to be studied in real time. For the majo....
Assessment of dried blood spots for DNA methylation profiling
Rosie M. Walker,Louise MacGillivray,Sarah McCafferty,Nicola Wrobel,Lee Murphy,Shona M. Kerr,Stewart W. Morris,Archie I. Campbell,Andrew M. McIntosh,David J. Porteous,Kathryn L. Evans
Recent technological advances have facilitated the high-throughput genome-wide measurement of DNA methylation, yielding many studies reporting links between methylation and several conditions, diseases and phenotypes. The majority of studies have profiled DNA methylation in peripheral blood due to ease of sampling, which also re....
Identifying the spatial patterning characteristics of HIV positive clients not linked to care using a geographic information system
Kevin Rombosia,Nelly Rangara,Elizabeth Oele,Nancy Kirui,Douglas Olaka,Evans Ondura,Bernard Mitto
For many years, the analysis and use of spatial data has guided public health efforts, and Dr. John Snow, who is often credited as the founder of epidemiology, is a classic example of using this type of data. UNAIDS. Investigating the spatial patterning of diseases is an epidemiology tool that provides greater understanding of t....
Rituximab efficiently depletes B cells in lung tumors and normal lung tissue
Albane Joly-Battaglini,Clara Hammarström,Branislava Stankovic,Henrik Aamodt,Johan Stjärne,Odd Terje Brustugun,Åslaug Helland,Inger Øynebråten,Alexandre Corthay
Rituximab was the first monoclonal antibody to be approved for the treatment of cancer and it is estimated that >4 million people have been treated with rituximab worldwiden
Meta-analysis of exome array data identifies six novel genetic loci for lung function
Victoria E. Jackson,Jeanne C. Latourelle,Louise V. Wain,Albert V. Smith,Megan L. Grove,Traci M. Bartz,Ma'en Obeidat,Michael A. Province,Wei Gao,Beenish Qaiser,David J. Porteous,Patricia A. Cassano,Tarunveer S. Ahluwalia,Niels Grarup,Jin Li,Elisabeth Altmaier,Jonathan Marten,Sarah E. Harris,Ani Manichaikul,Tess D. Pottinger,Ruifang Li-Gao,Allan Lind-Thomsen,Anubha Mahajan,Lies Lahousse,Medea Imboden,Alexander Teumer,Bram Prins,Leo-Pekka Lyytikäinen,Gudny Eiriksdottir,Nora Franceschini,Colleen M. Sitlani,Jennifer A. Brody,Yohan Bossé,Wim Timens,Aldi Kraja,Anu Loukola,Wenbo Tang,Yongmei Liu,Jette Bork-Jensen,Johanne M. Justesen,Allan Linneberg,Leslie A. Lange,Rajesh Rawal,Stefan Karrasch,Jennifer E. Huffman,Blair H. Smith,Gail Davies,Kristin M. Burkart,Josyf C. Mychaleckyj,Tobias N. Bonten,Stefan Enroth,Lars Lind,Guy G. Brusselle,Ashish Kumar,Beate Stubbe,Mika Kähönen,Annah B. Wyss,Bruce M. Psaty,Susan R. Heckbert,Ke Hao,Taina Rantanen,Stephen B. Kritchevsky,Kurt Lohman,Tea Skaaby,Charlotta Pisinger,Torben Hansen,Holger Schulz,Ozren Polasek,Archie I. Campbell,John M. Starr,Stephen S. Rich,Dennis O. Mook-Kanamori,Åsa Johansson,Erik Ingelsson,André G. Uitterlinden,Stefan Weiss,Olli T. Raitakari,Vilmundur Gudnason,Kari E. North,Sina A. Gharib,Don D. Sin,Kent D. Taylor,George T. O'Connor,Jaakko Kaprio,Tamara B. Harris,Oluf Pederson,Henrik Vestergaard,James G. Wilson,Konstantin Strauch,Caroline Hayward,Shona M. Kerr,Ian J. Deary,R. Graham Barr,Renée de Mutsert,Ulf Gyllensten,Andrew P. Morris,M. Arfan Ikram,Nicole Probst-Hensch,Sven Gläser,Eleftheria Zeggini,Terho Lehtimäki,David P. Strachan,Josée Dupuis,Alanna C. Morrison,Ian P. Hall,Martin D. Tobin,Stephanie J. London
Measures of lung function act as predictors of mortality and morbidity and form the basis for the diagnosis of several diseases, most notably chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), one of the leading causes of death globally. Low frequency (minor allele frequency (MAF) 1–5%) and rare (MAF<1%) variants have been largely un....
Resilience in Children - Tools for Helping
Tricia Klassen, MSW, RSW
The Crisis and Trauma Resource Institute No matter what a child may be struggling with, when attempts at talking through a problem do not work, using alternative approaches for connecting will often prove more helpful. This webinar explores creative ways of engaging and communicating with children (ages 3-12) and their natural....
TEST Webinar: Introduction to the WHO Labour Care Guide (“WHO Next generation Partograph”)
Triphonie NKURUNZIZA:
SESSION CHAIR: Triphonie NKURUNZIZA PANELISTS Mercedes BONET SEMENAS Rose Laisser Veronica Pingray Nancy Kidula Fatima Gohar Muna Abdullah Remarks: Frances Emma MCCONVILLE Hilma Shikwambi The World Health Organization launched the Intrapartum Care recommendations for a positive childbirth experience in 2018....
Caring for the mentally III outside the psychiatric setting
Kathleen Fitzsimmons RN, MEd, PhD
This course is designed to assist healthcare professionals become more confident caring for patients with psychiatric illnesses outside the psychiatric setting.
Breast Cancer: What is? & What Works?
National Radiotherapy and Oncology Centre, Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra
Breast Cancer is the foremost cancer in Ghanaian women and the leading cause of cancer death. GLOBOCAN estimated that 4482 women were diagnosed with breast cancer in 2020, representing 18.7 % of all cancers in Ghana. The picture is no different in other African countries. Where it is different, breast cancer is second only to ce....