Global perioperative surgery research. A call to Latin America

Barriers to Clinical Research in Latin America

Enhancing health research capacity in developing countries is a global health priority. Understanding the orthopedic burden of disease in Latin America will require close partnership between more-developed and less-developed countries. To this end, the Osteosynthesis and Trauma Care Foundation assembled a research consortium of Latin-American orthopedic leaders. Prior to the meeting, we surveye...

Latin America in a Changing Global Environment

Health research in Latin America.

1 Villar J, Carolli G, Wojdyla D, et al, for the WHO Antenatal Care Trial Research Group. Preeclampsia, gestational hypertension and intrauterine growth restriction, related or independent conditions? Am J Obstet Gynecol 2006; 194: 921–31. 2 Sibai BM, Caritis S, Hauth J, for the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Maternal-Fetal Medicine Units Network. What we have learned ...

Traumatic brain injury in Latin America and the Caribbean: a call for research.

T Brain Injury (TBI) is a critical public health problem affecting more than 10 million people worldwide and is set to surpass many diseases as the leading cause of mortality and morbidity by the year 2020.1 The burden of this often neglected injury disproportionately affects low and middle income countries (LMICs) which face not only a higher preponderance of risk factors for TBI but also have...

Recent Archeological Research in Latin America.

Recent Archeological Research in Latin America: DR. Wm. DUNCAN STRONG ...... .. 179 The Problems of Aging and of Vascular Diseases: DR. HENRY S. SIMMS ... 183 Obituary: Charles William Lines, Jr. Recent Deaths .................. 186 Scientific Events: New Haven Industrial Medical Service; Health Services of the Commonwealth Fund; Stalin Prizes; The Inter-America Bureau of the New York Academy o...