An Unexpected Benefit of Adding the Patient Voice to Medical Education-Train Providers to Be Better.

Background: Amyloidosis is a complex multisystemic disease. Lack of knowledge about amyloidosis and subsequent misdiagnosis or underdiagnosis are major obstacles to treatment that result in life-threatening organ damage, heart failure, morbidity, and mortality. At present, medical didactic education about amyloidosis leaves new physicians woefully unprepared to suspect and diagnose it.

Evaluating the Amyloidosis Speakers Bureau: the influence of amyloidosis patients' narratives on medical students' knowledge, attitudes, and behavioral intent.

 Amyloidosis is a complex multi-systemic disease. Lack of knowledge about amyloidosis and subsequent mis- or under-diagnosis are major obstacles to treatment, which result in life-threatening organ damage, morbidity, and mortality. Hence, the purpose of this study is to explore the effectiveness of amyloidosis patients' narratives on medical students.

Male circumcision for protection against HIV infection in sub-Saharan Africa: the evidence in favour justifies the implementation now in progress.

This article responds to a recent 'controversy study' in Global Public Health by de Camargo et al. directed at three randomised controlled trials (RCTs) of male circumcision (MC) for HIV prevention. These trials were conducted in three countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and published in 2005 and 2007.