Transplants from living donors in the United Kingdom and Ireland: a centre survey.

Re-organising Junior Doctors During the COVID-19 Outbreak: A Single Centre Experience in the United Kingdom

An Investigation of the Relationship between Serum Vitamin E Status and Coronary Risk Factors in Dyslipidaemic Patients

Objective Vitamin E is a major lipid-soluble antioxidant. It has been demonstrated that vitamin E supplementation has a beneficial effect against coronary heart disease (CHD). This study to investigate the effects of coronary risk factors on serum vitamin E status in patients with dyslipidaemia. Materials and Methods This tertiary care hospital; case - control study was comprised 237 dyslipidae...

Predictors of Utilisation of Skilled Maternal Healthcare in Lilongwe District, Malawi

Background Despite numerous efforts to improve maternal and child health in Malawi, maternal and newborn mortality rates remain very high, with the country having one of the highest maternal mortality ratios globally. The aim of this study was to identify which individual factors best predict utilisation of skilled maternal healthcare in a sample of women residing in Lilongwe district of ...

Philanthropically Funded Heroism Awards for Kidney Donors?

There are about 100,000 people on the waiting list for a deceased donor– kidney transplant in the United States, a number that grows from year to year despite advances that have increased the availability of kidney transplantation. About 36,000 patients joined the waiting list in 2013, though only about 11,000 deceased donor transplants were performed, along with about 6000 transplants from liv...

Health Services Research Spending and Healthcare System Impact; Comment on “Public Spending on Health Service and Policy Research in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States: A Modest Proposal”

The challenges associated with translating health services and policy research (HSPR) evidence into practice are many and long-standing. Indeed, those challenges have themselves spawned new areas of research, including knowledge translation and implementation science. These sub-disciplines have increased our understanding of the critical success factors associated with the uptake of research ev...