Growth model for international academic medicine partnerships: Qualitative analysis of Ghana postgraduate Ob/Gyn training program.

This study aims to detail the capacity strengthening process of the Ghana Ob/Gyn postgraduate training program in order to inform a model by which international academic medicine partnerships can form, grow, and effectively tackle development challenges. A qualitative analysis with grounded theory methodological approach was utilized. Convenience and purposive sampling were used to select certified Ob/Gyn training program graduates.

Risk factors for stillbirth and early neonatal death: a case-control study in tertiary hospitals in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Background: Ethiopia is a Sub-Saharan country that has made significant improvements in maternal mortality and under-five mortality over the past 15 years. However, the nation continues to have one of the highest rates of perinatal mortality in the entire world with current estimates at 33 deaths per 1000 live births.

Methods: This case-control study was conducted between October 2016 and May 2017 at Tikur Anbessa Hospital and Gandhi Memorial Hospital.

Ethical issues in global health engagement.

With an increasing number of clinicians participating in global health work, such engagement is now more than ever in need of critical ethical scrutiny. Exemplary initiatives in research, academics and publication, and other special considerations, provide potential approaches for overcoming ethical challenges in global health work. These methods demonstrate that successful global health work includes a commitment to foundational ethical principles such as trust, honesty, open communication and transparency, sustainability, capacity building, and appreciation for multiple perspectives - principles that surpass the traditional considerations of clinical practice.

Weight loss by calorie restriction versus bariatric surgery differentially regulates the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenocortical axis in male rats.

Behavioral modifications for the treatment of obesity, including caloric restriction, have notoriously low long-term success rates relative to bariatric weight-loss surgery. The reasons for the difference in sustained weight loss are not clear. One possibility is that caloric restriction alone activates the stress-responsive hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenocortical (HPA) axis, undermining the long-term maintenance of weight loss, and that this is abrogated after bariatric surgery.