Holistic Care: An Urgent Need for Cervical Cancer Patients in Kenya

Cultural Competence in Diabetes Mellitus Care: An Urgent Need

Background: Multicultural societies exist worldwide. Two important challenges can be appreciated in this scenario. Minority populations, due to a combination of genetic and lifestyle factors, have a particularly high risk for developing type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM). In addition, the quality of health care provided to minority populations, including that for DM, has lagged behind that provided ...

The need for competency-based training in dental urgent care.

VOLUME 46 • NUMBER 6 • JUNE 2015 The primary goal of dental education is to train dental professionals who can competently address a wide range of issues in oral health care and independently practice evidence-based comprehensive dentistry aimed at improving the health of society.1 Competency-based education as a philosophy has widely been adopted by dental schools worldwide for both undergradu...

Female condoms, an urgent need.

The urgent need to improve hypertension care.

Hypertension is the most prevalent health problem among adult primary care patients, but its recognition and treatment are suboptimal. Although there is ample evidence from several large-scale randomized, controlled studies that treatment of hypertension reduces morbidity and mortality, current management of hypertension is characterized by underdiagnosis, misdiagnosis, undertreatment, overtrea...

Aldosterone assays: an urgent need for improvement.

It should not be forgotten that the concentration of aldosterone in plasma is only 1 thousandth that of cortisol. In this issue of Clinical Chemistry, Schirpenbach et al. (1 ) draw much-needed attention to current problems with measurement of aldosterone. The issue is extremely important in clinical practice after recognition that primary aldosteronism is a much more common cause of hypertensio...