3171 papers
This qualitative study of midwives in Uganda's Ankole Sub-region reveals that while they possess a strong professional drive, their intrapartum care delivery and career retention are significantly compromised by systemic limitations, resource shortages, and heavy workloads that lead to burnout and dissatisfaction.
This pre-registered simulation and external-evaluation study demonstrates that a model-informed precision dosing engine, utilizing a compiled medical-knowledge substrate, successfully provides calibrated, unbiased, and more accurate within-population individualized dosing for narrow-therapeutic-index antimicrobials across diverse critical-care populations.
This qualitative study details the co-creation of a culturally adapted, school-based mindfulness intervention for Rwanda and Ethiopia through a collaborative "knotworking" process that addressed local constraints like large class sizes and religious sensitivities to develop a feasible curriculum for low-resource settings.
This scoping review highlights the potential of nanoparticle-based delivery systems to overcome blood-brain barrier limitations and modulate the PINK1/Parkin pathway for Parkinson's disease treatment, while noting that current evidence is extremely limited to a single study and calls for more standardized research to validate clinical efficacy.
Despite near-universal ownership of long-lasting insecticidal nets among pregnant women in Bonsu Sub-Municipality, Ghana, a significant utilization gap persists primarily due to knowledge deficits regarding insecticide efficacy and physical discomfort from side effects, rather than supply-side barriers.
This study reveals that the Philippines' PhilHealth-accredited physician workforce is critically insufficient and heavily concentrated in the National Capital Region, with a distribution pattern mirroring that of medical schools and training hospitals, leaving dozens of provinces without access to essential specialist care.
This cross-sectional analysis of NHANES data reveals that while telemedicine use among older adults with multimorbidity is associated with both clinical need and socioeconomic resources, lower income significantly increases the likelihood of high-need nonuse, highlighting persistent disparities in access to remote care.
This study demonstrates that oral administration of olive leaf extract exerts neuroprotective effects in a rabbit model of chronic spinal cord injury by significantly reducing the expression of apoptotic markers (AIF and caspase-3), lowering pro-inflammatory cytokines, increasing BDNF, and improving motor function.
This paper argues that Nigeria's unregulated high-saturated-fat palm olein market poses a severe cardiovascular threat and proposes a dual regulatory strategy combining mandatory compositional reformulation (capping SFAs at 35 g/100 g or lower) with volumetric consumption limits to significantly reduce ischemic heart disease risk across the population.
This study analyzes serological markers, clinical characteristics, and treatment outcomes in a Pakistani cohort with hepatitis B virus, revealing a 1.85% HBsAg prevalence with a significant active-replication subgroup, and underscores the urgent need for enhanced vaccination, early diagnosis, and genotype-informed surveillance to manage chronic HBV in Pakistan.