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WHO’s GBV clinical handbook an eye-opener for doctors in Namibia
When Dr Ifeolu Oyedele first learned that he would be going for training on the World Health Organization (WHO)’s ‘Clinical handbook for the health care of survivors subjected to intimate partner violence and/or sexual violence’ he did not think he would learn anything new from the session. In fact, he was already sensitized through his
Need Kids for Clinical Studies? Try Facebook to Reach Parents
Social media platforms are a useful way to reach parents of children with rheumatologic diseases for purposes of clinical research, researchers suggested. Children of parents who responded to surveys distributed through social media were generally similar, in terms of diagnoses and other disease characteristics, to those enrolled in a large, formal registry of pediatric rheumatologic…
Leaving Clinical Medicine Without Regrets
"You do not have to be good." I've long considered having these classic, profound opening words of Mary Oliver's most famous poem, Wild Geese, tattooed on my body somewhere. Since I quit clinical medicine just a few weeks ago, I'm at that stage where I'm researching tattoo parlors. It was just this morning, as I…
Clinical messaging platform Hospify to close, Bupa Arabia invests in Global Ventures, and more news briefs
Clinical messaging platform Hospify to close British healthtech startup Hospify has announced it will close its secure clinical messaging platform on 31 January 2021. Hospify said it suffered a decline in demand after the government suspended the UK 2018 Data Protection Act in relation to healthcare last year for the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic.…