Alpha-lipoic acid: A promising pharmacotherapy seen through the lens of kidney diseases.

Kidney diseases have rapidly increased in prevalence over the past few decades, and have now become a major global public health concern. This has put economic burden on the public healthcare system and causing significant morbidity and mortality worldwide. Unfortunately, drugs currently in use for the management of kidney diseases have long-term major adverse effects that negatively impact the quality of life of these patients, hence making these drugs a "necessary evil".

Comparison of microscopic and xpert MTB diagnoses of presumptive mycobacteria tuberculosis infection: retrospective analysis of routine diagnosis at Cape Coast Teaching Hospital.

Introduction: Tuberculosis is a global health problem that causes 1. 4 million deaths every year. It has been estimated that sputum smear-negative diagnosis but culture-positive pulmonary TB diagnosis contribute to 12.

The Need to Address Fragmentation and Silos in Mortality Information Systems: The Case of Ghana and Peru.

We aimed to understand the information architecture and degree of integration of mortality surveillance systems in Ghana and Peru. We conducted a cross-sectional study using a combination of document review and unstructured interviews to describe and analyse the sub-systems collecting mortality data. We identified 18 and 16 information subsystems with independent databases capturing death events in Peru and Ghana respectively.