Managing Kidney Diseases in Bangladesh

Managing Populations While Managing Diseases

Yang Zhao, Ph.D., Research Scientist, DxCG, Inc., Waltham, MA Arlene S. Ash, Ph.D., Research Professor, Department of General Internal Medicine, Boston University, Boston, MA, and Senior Scientist, DxCG, Inc., Waltham, MA Randall P. Ellis, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Economics, Boston University, Boston, MA, and Senior Scientist, DxCG, Inc., Waltham, MA James P. Slaughter, M.D., Chair, Medi...

Neurologic manifestations in children and adolescents with chronic kidney diseases

Background and Objective: Chronic renal failure (CRF) may have many effects on nervous system and manifest as headache, seizure, dialysis disequilibrium syndrome, cerebral hemorrhage, hypertensive encephalopathy, uremic neuropathy, and some neurologic complications of transplantation. In this present study we investigate neurologic disorders in children with CRF. Methods: In this descriptive...

Emerging Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases in Bangladesh.

As a result of an epidemiological transition from communicable to non-communicable diseases for last few decades, cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are being considered as an important cause of mortality and morbidity in many developing countries including Bangladesh. Performing an extensive literature search, we compiled, summarized, and categorized the existing information about CVD mortality and...

Telemedicine application in diagnosing and managing heart diseases in neonates and children: A systematized review

Managing chronic diseases

Editor—Palliative care does not start when a patient is dying. A whole spectrum of palliation begins from the day of diagnosis of a potentially terminal disease, such as soft tissue sarcoma. Palliation, in the sense of needing to absorb what this means for the patient, becomes even then a medical imperative. The “How long have I got, Doc?” question may not be articulated, but it will be there a...