Beat Diabetes: WHO World Health Day, April 7, 2016

@RobertaHeale  Associate Editor EBN Every year on April 7, the birthday of the World Health Organization, the organization highlights a global public health concern. In 2016, the theme is diabetes. The organization explains why this in an important theme on their website:http://www.who.int/campaigns/world-health-day/2016/how-to-get-involved/en/ I can’t imagine meeting anyone in health care who hasn’t had to work […]

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World Kidney Day 2016

Dr Helen Noble, Queens University Belfast and Sarah Hallahan, Belfast City Hospital, Northern Ireland. Kidney problems are common. And the number of people with serious kidney problems, such as kidney disease is growing. World Kidney Day (WKD occurs annually on the 2nd Thursday in March. See; www.worldkidneyday.co.uk. On this day kidney charities, staff and patients organise events […]

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Shifting the Paradigm of Prenatal Care: Prenatal Care in Groups

Dr. Gina Novick is a certified nurse-midwife (CNM) from the United States. Gina shares her experience both as a clinician and researcher on using different models of pregnancy care to build meaningful relationships between women and pregnancy care providers. Read Gina’s blog here… When I entered midwifery, I was introduced to the midwifery philosophy of […]

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Cadaveric donation: brain stem death

Oluwafunmilayo Ololade JAWONIYI, Helen NOBLE and Kevin GORMLEY. Queens University Belfast. The brain stem is situated at the base of the brain. It regulates most of the automatic functioning systems within the human body upon which life is contingent. These include breathing, maintenance of blood pressure, heartbeat, swallowing, conveying information to and from the brain […]

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