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Georgian Med News
October 2024
1Department of Therapeutic Stomatology, Poltava State Medical University, Ukraine.
Throughout their existence, people have sought to know what tomorrow holds for them. It was especially important to learn about a full life, illness or death. Science is the essence of human knowledge, which is organized according to certain principles, a real connection of judgments, predictions and problems of reality and its individual spheres or aspects.
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December 2024
Autism and Developmental Medicine Institute, Geisinger, Lewisburg, PA, United States.
Background: Medical marijuana (MMJ) is available in Pennsylvania, and participation in the state-regulated program requires patient registration and receiving certification by an approved physician. Currently, no integration of MMJ certification data with health records exists in Pennsylvania that would allow clinicians to rapidly identify patients using MMJ, as exists with other scheduled drugs. This absence of a formal data sharing structure necessitates tools aiding in consistent documentation practices to enable comprehensive patient care.
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November 2024
Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Hacettepe University, Ankara 06230, Türkiye.
Background/objectives: The objective of this study was to investigate the factors influencing adherence with tuberculosis medication therapy. Non-adherence can result in treatment failure, ongoing infectiousness, and the development of drug resistance. Therefore, understanding the reasons behind non-adherence is crucial for achieving the World Health Organization's target of 90% treatment success.
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December 2024
Kilimanjaro Christian Medical University College, Moshi, United Republic of Tanzania.
Objective: To assess service availability and readiness of health facilities to provide maternal and newborn care in the Kilimanjaro region, northern Tanzania: a study conducted between August to October 2022.
Design: The study used a cross-sectional design by adopting WHO Service Availability and Readiness Assessment tool to assess basic maternal, newborn and child health services delivery in the health facilities of the Kilimanjaro region.
Setting: The study was conducted in seven districts of Kilimanjaro region at health facilities with a labour ward and where delivery and maternal services for women and neonatal care were offered.
Kardiologiia
November 2024
Russian Gerontological Research and Clinical Center, Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University, Moscow; Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University, Moscow.
Aim To evaluate the role of iron deficiency (ID) identified by various criteria, anemia, and the combination of ID and anemia in determining the severity of the clinical course of chronic heart failure (CHF) in a retrospective analysis of data from 498 patients who participated in the ID-CHF-RF Russian multicenter program.Material and methods ID was diagnosed by the following three criteria established by the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) and the Russian Society of Cardiology (RSC): 1) ferritin concentration <100 μg/l or ferritin concentration 100-299 μg/l in combination with a decreased transferrin saturation (TS) <20%; 2) ID criteria that showed a high sensitivity and specificity when compared with bone marrow morphology (BMM): TS ≤19.8% or serum iron (SI) ≤13 μmol/l; and 3) a composite index including a ferritin concentration <100 μg/l in combination with TS <20% and SI ≤13 μmol/l.
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