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The University of Calabar Teaching Hospital has successfully performed its first open-heart surgery in the hospital.

The Chief Medical Director/Chief Executive Officer of the hospital, Prof Ikpeme Ikpeme, made this known in a statement titled, &#8220;Today we made history&#8230;&amp; we move!&#8221;


The statement read in part, &#8220;Today, Wednesday 15th September 2021, at 6.43 pm, history was made in our UCTH when the first-ever open heart surgery was performed in our hospital and the patient safely wheeled out to our Intensive Care Unit. 


&#8220;She had received a Mitral valve replacement following about six and a half hours of surgery. This has been the culmination of two years of hard work, determination, sacrifice, vision and focus at different levels of our hospital. And we must offer sincere gratitude to God and all who worked to make this happen. 


&#8220;It is the guiding principle of this management to work quietly to achieve the vision and mission of our hospital and reposition her appropriately in the comity of tertiary health institutions in Nigeria. We have driven this agenda by focusing steadily on the 3R mantra and refusing to be distracted. We must appreciate all staff who made this happen openly.


According to Ikpeme, the Memorandum of Understanding for Open Heart Surgery Missions was signed with the VOOM Foundation sometime in 2015/16. 


He stated that things went quiet until the MoU was reviewed with the Foundation in July/August 2019 and UCTH made a commitment to actualise the programme and domesticate open heart surgery in the hospital. 


He said, &#8220;After two years of sacrificial hard work, doggedness, critical planning and determination against many odds, here we are today. We have had to construct a new Theatre Suite using in-house engineering and technical teams. We had to create a multidisciplinary Heart Surgery Team; we had to clear 2Nos 40ft containers from Onne Port, Port Harcourt and invest in equipment worth millions of Naira (Heart-Lung machine, Heater-Cooler interexchanger system, Cell savers, High-end Anaesthetic Machine, high-end monitors, Defibrillator with Internal pads, Ventilators, digital mobile X-ray system, etc). Hours of work went into this project.&#8221;
									
										
											
											
												
											
											
											
												
											
										
									
								


Ikpeme stated that the hospital was offering those surgeries at 30 per cent of their actual cost. 


&#8220;Our commitment is that as we resuscitate basic services; we will strive to introduce higher-end services that will define our existence as a tertiary centre and contribute to the well-being of our people and community,&#8221; he added.

The University of Calabar Teaching Hospital has successfully performed its first open-heart surgery in the hospital. The Chief Medical Director/Chief Executive Officer of the hospital, Prof Ikpeme Ikpeme, made this known in a statement titled, “Today we made history…& we move!” The statement read in part, “Today, Wednesday 15th September 2021, at 6.43 pm, history…

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<a href="https://www.flyingeze.com/category/" target="_blank">Doctor Anywhere</a>, a startup that takes an “omnichannel” approach to healthcare, announced today it has raised $88 million SGD (about $65.7 million USD) in Series C funding. The round was led by Asia Partners, with participation from Novo Holdings, Philips and OSK-SBI Partners. It also included returning investors EDBI, Square Peg, IHH Healthcare, Kamet Capital and Pavilion Capital. 
As part of the round, Asia Partners co-founder Oliver Rippel and Novo Holdings Equity Asia senior partner Dr. Amit Kakar will join Doctor Anywhere’s board of directors. The company’s Series C, which it claims is one of the largest private rounds raised by a Southeast Asian healthtech company, brings its total funding to more than $140 million SGD. 
Doctor Anywhere’s omnichannel approach means that in addition to online consultations, it runs in-person clinics, provides home visits, medication deliveries and operates an in-app marketplace for health and wellness products. 
Founded in 2017 by Lim Wai Mun, Doctor Anywhere claims it now serves more than 1.5 million users. It is available in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam and the Philippines, and recently established tech hubs in Bangalore and Ho Chi Minh City. 
Lim told TechCrunch in an email that when he started working on Doctor Anywhere, there were already successful telemedicine platforms in the United States, the United Kingdom and China, but the model was still nascent in Southeast Asia. A former investor, Lim began Doctor Anywhere as a side project because he had older relatives who could not leave their homes for medical visits. 
Doctor Anywhere launched as an online-only telehealth platform, but “we quickly realized that physical presence is very important in order to build trust with users,” Lim said. As a result, the company started its home care services and physical clinics. 
According to Doctor Anywhere’s estimates, the COVID-19 pandemic fast-tracked the adoption of telehealth services in Southeast Asia by at least five years. The company saw more demand for online medical consultations, medication deliveries and marketplace purchases. 
“In the past year, we have more than doubled the size of our network, from around 1,000 providers at the start of 2020 to currently close to 2,500 medical professionals across Southeast Asia,” Lim said. 

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In response to the pandemic, Doctor Anywhere launched an online COVID-19 Medical Advisory Clinic last year to provide on-demand consultations for people with suspected symptoms. It also created an online mental wellness module with psychologists. Lim said the company has seen an increase in demand for mental health-related services, like insomnia and anxiety. 
Other telehealth startups in the region include WhiteCoat, Speedoc and Doctor World. Lim said Doctor Anywhere wants to differentiate by quickly launching new products in response to user inquiries, and “cultivating a balance between technology and human touch.” 
The funding will be used to deepen Doctor Anywhere’s presence in its current markets and expand into new ones. It also plans to scale its tech infrastructure and big data capabilities for a better online-to-offline user experience, and will introduce new medical specialty modules, shorten medication delivery times and develop personalized healthcare plans. 

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Doctor Anywhere, a startup that takes an “omnichannel” approach to healthcare, announced today it has raised $88 million SGD (about $65.7 million USD) in Series C funding. The round was led by Asia Partners, with participation from Novo Holdings, Philips and OSK-SBI Partners. It also included returning investors EDBI, Square Peg, IHH Healthcare, Kamet Capital […]

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Hair loss resulting from chemotherapy is one of the most recognizable side effects in all of medicine, and for many is an unwanted public announcement of their condition and treatment. <a href="https://www.flyingeze.com/category/" target="_blank">Luminate Medical</a> may have a solution in a medical wearable that prevents the chemical cocktail from tainting hair follicles, preventing the worst of the loss and perhaps relegating this highly visible condition to the past.
When Luminate CEO Aaron Hannon and his co-founder Bárbara Oliveira were asking patients and doctors about areas of cancer treatment that they could perhaps innovate in, &#8220;we were just astonished at how much hair loss dominated the conversation,&#8221; said Hannon. &#8220;So from then on out we&#8217;ve just been laser focused on making that something that doesn&#8217;t exist any more.&#8221;
When a patient is undergoing chemotherapy, the cancer-inhibiting drugs course through their entire body — anywhere the blood goes. This has a variety of side effects, like weakness and nausea, and on a longer time scale hair loss occurs as the substances affect the follicles. Luminate&#8217;s solution, developed in partnership with the National University of Ireland Galway, is to prevent the blood from reaching those cells in the first place.
<a href="https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/luminate-render.png" target="_blank"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-2195708" loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-2195708" src="https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/luminate-render.png" alt="Image of a woman wearing the Luminate headset." width="449" srcset="https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/luminate-render.png 449w, https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/luminate-render.png?resize=124,150 124w, https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/luminate-render.png?resize=247,300 247w, https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/luminate-render.png?resize=41,50 41w" sizes="(max-width: 449px) 100vw, 449px" /></a>Image Credits: Luminate
The device that effects this is a sort of mechanized compression garment for the head. If that sounds a bit sinister, don&#8217;t worry — the pressure comes from air bladders and pads pressing against the scalp, not screws or plates; Hannon says that it isn&#8217;t uncomfortable and pressure is carefully monitored.
There&#8217;s also no risk of damage from lack of blood flow in those cells. &#8220;Compression therapy has been really well studied,&#8221; he said. &#8220;There are years of literature around how long you can apply these therapies without damaging the cells. There&#8217;s a certain amount of mechanical engineering involved in making it both comfortable and effective.&#8221;
The patient wears the cap during and after the whole chemo session. By restricting blood flow to the skin of the scalp only, it allows the drugs to flow unimpeded to wherever the tumor or cancer site is while saving the hair follicles from damage.
Tests have been done on animals, which saw hair retention of around 80 percent with no adverse effects — and while full human trials are something that will need some time and approval to set up, initial tests of the headset&#8217;s bloodflow-blocking effects on healthy patients showed that it works exactly as expected on people as well.
&#8220;We&#8217;re really excited about the efficacy of this therapy because it works with lots of hair types,&#8221; said Hannon. That&#8217;s a real consideration, since a tech that only worked with short hair, straight hair, or some other subset of hairstyles would exclude far too many people.
<a href="https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/luminate-app.jpg" target="_blank"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-2195701" loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-2195701" src="https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/luminate-app.jpg" alt="Luminate's app showing how long is left in therapy for the user." width="1024" srcset="https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/luminate-app.jpg 1333w, https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/luminate-app.jpg?resize=150,90 150w, https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/luminate-app.jpg?resize=300,180 300w, https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/luminate-app.jpg?resize=768,462 768w, https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/luminate-app.jpg?resize=680,409 680w, https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/luminate-app.jpg?resize=50,30 50w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></a>Image Credits: Luminate / Wild Island Pictures
As for competition, although there are some new treatments that cool the scalp instead of compressing it, Hannon noted that the most money is spent by far on wigs. An average of a thousand dollars per patient who opts for a wig means there&#8217;s considerable leeway for a device in that neighborhood.
Although hair loss is considered a medical condition by many insurance companies and other methods of reimbursement, and wigs are often covered, it will take time and lots of evidence to get Luminate&#8217;s device approved for those processes. But the team is confident that at around $1,500, the device is within the means of many as long as other costs are being picked up by insurance. People do, after all, spend that much and more not just on wigs but on other hair retention products and methods. If there was a checkbox for &#8220;don&#8217;t lose hair&#8221; on the chemo forms with a $1,500 price tag, a whole lot of people would check it without a second thought.
<a href="https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/medical-device-aims.jpg" target="_blank"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-2195703" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-2195703 size-full" src="https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/medical-device-aims.jpg" alt="Cofounders Bárbara Oliveira (left) and Aaron Hannon." width="768" srcset="https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/medical-device-aims.jpg 768w, https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/medical-device-aims.jpg?resize=150,100 150w, https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/medical-device-aims.jpg?resize=300,201 300w, https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/medical-device-aims.jpg?resize=680,455 680w, https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/medical-device-aims.jpg?resize=50,33 50w" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" /></a>Image Credits: Luminate
Ultimately, however, Luminate wants to be able to offer the device also to those who can&#8217;t afford the cost out of pocket, so they are progressing towards FDA approval and a U.S. launch, with Europe and others to come.
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So far Luminate, just graduating from Y Combinator&#8217;s Summer 2021 batch, has been lucky enough to operate on funds provided through grants from the Irish government, which are of course non-dilutive. While more capital will almost certainly be required come time for scaling and international launch, right now the team is focused on getting the device into the hands (and onto the heads) of its first set of patients.

Hair loss resulting from chemotherapy is one of the most recognizable side effects in all of medicine, and for many is an unwanted public announcement of their condition and treatment. Luminate Medical may have a solution in a medical wearable that prevents the chemical cocktail from tainting hair follicles, preventing the worst of the loss […]

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Those at risk are always vigilant for the signs of a stroke in progress, but no one can be vigilant when they&#8217;re sleeping, meaning thousands of people suffer &#8220;wake-up strokes&#8221; that are only identified hours after the fact. <a href="https://www.flyingeze.com/category/" target="_blank">Zeit Medical&#8217;s</a> brain-monitoring wearable could help raise the alarm and get people to the hospital fast enough to mitigate the stroke&#8217;s damage and potentially save lives.
A few decades ago, there wasn&#8217;t much anyone could do to help a stroke victim. But an effective medication entered use in the &#8217;90s, and a little later a surgical procedure was also pioneered — but both need to be administered within a few hours of the stroke&#8217;s onset.
Orestis Vardoulis and Urs Naber started Zeit (&#8220;time&#8221;) after seeing the resources being put towards reducing the delay between a 911 call regarding a stroke and the victim getting the therapy needed. The company is part of Y Combinator&#8217;s Summer 2021 cohort.
&#8220;It used to be that you couldn&#8217;t do anything, but suddenly it really mattered how fast you got to the hospital,&#8221; said Naber. &#8220;As soon as the stroke hits you, your brain starts dying, so time is the most crucial thing. People have spent millions shrinking the time between the 911 call and transport, and from the hospital door to treatment. but no one is addressing those hours that happen before the 911 call — so we realized that&#8217;s where we need to innovate.&#8221;
If only the stroke could be identified before the person even realizes it&#8217;s happening, they and others could be alerted and off to the hospital long before an ambulance would normally be called. As it turns out, there&#8217;s another situation where this needs to happen: in the OR.
<a href="https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/stroke-pattern.png" target="_blank"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-2193577" loading="lazy" class="size-full wp-image-2193577" src="https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/stroke-pattern.png" alt="" width="1024" srcset="https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/stroke-pattern.png 1306w, https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/stroke-pattern.png?resize=150,59 150w, https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/stroke-pattern.png?resize=300,119 300w, https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/stroke-pattern.png?resize=768,304 768w, https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/stroke-pattern.png?resize=680,269 680w, https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/stroke-pattern.png?resize=50,20 50w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /></a>For illustrative purposes, an EEG signal that changes its character can be detected quickly by the algorithm.
Surgeons and nurses performing operations obviously monitor the patient&#8217;s vitals closely, and have learned to identify the signs of an impending stroke from the EEG monitoring their brainwaves.
&#8220;There are specific patterns that people are trained to catch with their eyes. We learned from the best neurologists out there how they process this data visually, and we built a tool to detect that automatically,&#8221; said Vardoulis. &#8220;This clinical experience really helped, because they assisted in defining features within the signal that helped us accelerate the process of deciding what is important and what is not.&#8221;
The team created a soft, wearable headband with a compact EEG built in that monitors the relevant signals from the brain. This data is sent to a smartphone app for analysis by a machine learning model trained on the aforementioned patterns, and if anything is detected, an alarm is sent to the user and pre-specified caregivers. It can also be set to automatically call 911.
&#8220;The vast majority of the data we have analyzed comes out of the OR,&#8221; said Vardoulis, where it can immediately be checked against the ground truth. &#8220;We saw that we have an algorithm that can robustly capture the onset of events in the OR with zero false positives.&#8221;
That should translate well to the home, they say, where there are actually fewer complicating variables. To test that, they&#8217;re working with a group of high-risk people who have already had one stroke; the months immediately following a stroke or related event (there are various clinically differentiated categories) is a dangerous one when second events are common.
<a href="https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Zeit_Team_yard.jpg" target="_blank"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-2193572" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-2193572" src="https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Zeit_Team_yard.jpg" alt="Orestis Vardoulis, left, and Urs Naber, co-founders of Zeit, pose with each other in a courtyard." width="400" srcset="https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Zeit_Team_yard.jpg 2000w, https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Zeit_Team_yard.jpg?resize=150,150 150w, https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Zeit_Team_yard.jpg?resize=300,300 300w, https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Zeit_Team_yard.jpg?resize=768,768 768w, https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Zeit_Team_yard.jpg?resize=680,680 680w, https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Zeit_Team_yard.jpg?resize=1536,1536 1536w, https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Zeit_Team_yard.jpg?resize=32,32 32w, https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Zeit_Team_yard.jpg?resize=50,50 50w, https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Zeit_Team_yard.jpg?resize=64,64 64w, https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Zeit_Team_yard.jpg?resize=96,96 96w, https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Zeit_Team_yard.jpg?resize=128,128 128w" sizes="(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px" /></a>Image Credits: Zeit
&#8220;Right now we have a research kit that we&#8217;re shipping to individuals involved in our studies that has the headband and phone. Users are wearing it every night,&#8221; said Vardoulis. &#8220;We&#8217;re preparing for a path that will allow us to go commercial at some point in 2023. We&#8217;re working with he FDA to define the clinical proof needed to get this clear.&#8221;
They&#8217;ve earned a &#8220;Breakthrough Device&#8221; classification, which (<a href="https://www.flyingeze.com/news/brainq-raises-40m-to-transform-stroke-patient-rehabilitation-with-its-home-therapy-device" target="_blank">like stroke rehabilitation company BrainQ</a>) puts them in position to move forward quickly with testing and certification.
&#8220;We&#8217;re going to start in the US, but we see a need globally,&#8221; said Naber. &#8220;There are countries where aging is even more prevalent and the support structure for disability care are even less.&#8221; The device could significantly lower the risk and cost of at-home and disability care for many people who might otherwise have to regularly visit the hospital.
The plan for now is to continue to gather data and partners until they can set up a large-scale study, which will almost certainly be required to move the device from direct-to-consumer to reimbursable (i.e. covered by insurance). And although they are totally focused on strokes for the present, the method could be adapted to watching for other neurological conditions.
&#8220;We hope to see a future where everyone with a stroke risk is issued this device,&#8221; said Vardoulis. &#8220;We really do see this as the missing puzzle piece in the stroke care continuum.&#8221;

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Those at risk are always vigilant for the signs of a stroke in progress, but no one can be vigilant when they’re sleeping, meaning thousands of people suffer “wake-up strokes” that are only identified hours after the fact. Zeit Medical’s brain-monitoring wearable could help raise the alarm and get people to the hospital fast enough […]

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We&#8217;ve seen <a href="https://www.engadget.com/2018-03-22-brain-scanning-helmet.html" data-ylk="elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid_p="22" data-v9y="1" target="_blank">helmets</a> and <a href="https://www.engadget.com/intel-penn-medicine-brain-tumor-ai-151105509.html" data-ylk="elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid_p="23" data-v9y="1" target="_blank">AI</a> that can spot brain tumors, but a new hard hat can actually treat them, too. As part of the latest neurological <a href="https://www.houstonmethodist.org/newsroom/investigational-magnetic-device-shrinks-glioblastoma-in-first-in-world-human-test/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-ylk="elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid_p="24" data-v9y="1" target="_blank">breakthrough</a>, researchers used a helmet that generates a magnetic field to shrink a deadly tumor by a third. The 53-year-old patient who underwent the treatment ultimately passed away due to an unrelated injury. But, an autopsy of his brain showed that the procedure had removed 31 percent of the tumor mass in a short time. The test marked the first noninvasive therapy for a deadly form of brain cancer known as glioblastoma.
The helmet features three rotating magnets connected to a microprocessor-based electronic controller operated by a rechargeable battery. As part of the therapy, the patient wore the device for five weeks at a clinic and then at home with the help of his wife. The resulting magnetic field therapy created by the helmet was administered for two hours initially and then ramped up to a maximum of six hours per day. During the period, the patient&#8217;s tumor mass and volume shrunk by nearly a third, with shrinkage appearing to correlate with the treatment dose.
The inventors of the device — which received FDA approval for compassionate use treatment — claim it could one day help treat brain cancer without radiation or chemotherapy. “Our results&#8230;open a new world of non-invasive and nontoxic therapy&#8230;with many exciting possibilities for the future,” said David S. Baskin, corresponding author and director of the Kenneth R. Peak Center for Brain and Pituitary Tumor Treatment in the Department of Neurosurgery at Houston Methodist Neurological Institute. Details of the procedure have been published in the peer-reviewed journal <a href="https://www.flyingeze.com/tag/full target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-ylk="elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid_p="25" data-v9y="1" target="_blank">Frontiers in Oncology</a>.
Editor’s note: This post originally appeared on<a href="https://www.engadget.com/magnetic-helmet-tumor-093523598.html" target="_blank"> Engadget</a>.

We’ve seen helmets and AI that can spot brain tumors, but a new hard hat can actually treat them, too. Researchers used a helmet that generates a magnetic field to shrink a deadly tumor by a third.

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Accusations of mistreatment of <a href="https://www.flyingeze.com/tag/indigenous" target="_blank">Indigenous</a> patients at Kingston General Hospital and Hotel Dieu have come to light.
The findings come in the form of a report, and a podcast made up of anonymous voices put together by a local student, and a nonprofit organization.
&#8220;I asked if I can have some medication for the pain. Her first response was to deny me because of addiction issues. She asked me &#8216;how much do you drink? are you a drug user?'&#8221;
That&#8217;s one anonymous account from an Indigenous trans person, voiced by a volunteer. They say they went to a Kingston area hospital for pain after slipping on ice in the winter, but their pain was disregarded.
		
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&#8220;When people disclose experiences of racism, often there&#8217;s retaliation, so it was really important to protect the identities of the people participating and sharing their stories in the research,&#8221; said Susan Delisle, author of the report and podcast organizer.
The report explores the relationship between colonialism and medical racism towards Indigenous People. Delisle says the idea for the “Be Heard” project came about a year ago, and she was able to put the voices together with support from the school and the non-profit organization &#8220;Unique Get Together Society.&#8221;
Other patients say when they shared they were in pain and needed medication, health-care workers assumed the patients had ulterior motives such as using the drugs for recreational purposes, or even to sell.
&#8220;To white nurses, being Native means you look like a drug addict. I&#8217;ve had the accusations leveled at me when I&#8217;ve been in for broken bones. If you go to the hospital in pain they&#8217;re going to ignore you because they think you&#8217;re a drug addict,&#8221; said another anonymous speaker apart of the podcast.
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While no specific staff members were named, the podcast says the experiences happened at both Hotel Dieu and Kingston General Hospital. 
Kingston Health Sciences Centre&#8217;s (KHSC) vice-president of mission, strategy, and support services is looking into the report.
&#8220;We always know we have room to improve how we provide care and patient feedback is one of the best ways that we learn about people&#8217;s actual experiences. 
It&#8217;s why we have patient advisors who work with us and partner with us on the work that we do, it&#8217;s why we have a patient relations program,&#8221; said Elizabeth Bardon.
		
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&#8220;Obviously the primary goal is to see real change,&#8221; said Delisle, when asked what the report aims to do.
Bardon says that anytime a patient reveals that their treatment didn&#8217;t meet their expectations or the hospital&#8217;s expectations, it&#8217;s concerning. KHSC and Delisle are set to meet to further discuss the report and its findings.
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A podcast and report allege that Indigenous patients faced mistreatment at Kingston General Hospital and Hotel Dieu hospitals. The voices remain anonymous. Watch video →

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<a class="nameLink" href="https://www.nbcsports.com/edge/basketball/nba/player/28859/lebron-james" target="_blank" target="_blank">LeBron James</a>, who&#8217;s out with an <a href="https://www.flyingeze.com/news/report-lebron-james-plans-to-return-to-lakers-lineup-next-week" target="_blank" rel="noopener" target="_blank">ankle injury</a>, didn&#8217;t attend the Lakers&#8217; <a href="https://www.flyingeze.com/news/three-things-to-know-draymond-finds-time-stone-curry-scores-41-warriors-climb-standings" target="_blank" rel="noopener" target="_blank">win over the Nuggets</a> on Monday or <a href="https://www.flyingeze.com/news/lakers-anthony-davis-leaves-game-with-back-spasms-says-he-expect-to-play-friday-vs-blazers" target="_blank" rel="noopener" target="_blank">loss to the Clippers</a> last night. According to Lakers coach Frank Vogel, LeBron isn&#8217;t traveling with the team to Portland for a game against the Trail Blazers tonight, either.
Asked whether there were a medical reason for LeBron not to be on the bench, Vogel said, &#8220;No.&#8221; Asked to expand on the reason, Vogel said, &#8220;He&#8217;s just not here. He was with us at shootaround this morning.&#8221;
Dave McMenamin of ESPN:
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LeBron James&#39; absences from the Nuggets and Clippers games were considered excused by the Lakers to allow James time to &quot;stay off the ankle,&quot; a source with knowledge of the situation tells ESPN. <a href="https://t.co/b23YxZGmWL" target="_blank">https://t.co/b23YxZGmWL</a>
&mdash; Dave McMenamin (@mcten) <a href="https://twitter.com/mcten/status/1390545050719772673?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank">May 7, 2021</a></blockquote>

That sounds like a medical reason.
Which makes it weird Vogel said otherwise.
LeBron has <a href="https://nba.nbcsports.com/2019/04/09/report-lebron-james-turned-off-teammates-by-not-being-around-while-injured/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" target="_blank">caused chemistry issues</a> by not being around while injured before. Though they&#8217;re older and probably more understanding, <a href="https://nba.nbcsports.com/2020/12/22/lakers-gain-star-stability-shake-up-roster-around-lebron-james-and-anthony-davis/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" target="_blank">plenty of new faces</a> are on the Lakers this season. Ideally, LeBron would be attending games, cheering on and advising his teammates and developing camaraderie.
But this has been a <a href="https://www.flyingeze.com/news/hawks-bogdan-bogdanovic-details-how-coronavirus-testing-costs-nba-players-sleep" target="_blank" rel="noopener" target="_blank">trying season</a> for everyone. Coming of a <a href="https://www.flyingeze.com/news/lebron-james-calls-bubble-the-most-challenging-thing-ive-ever-done-in-nba" target="_blank" rel="noopener" target="_blank">grueling</a> run through the 2020 playoffs then <a href="https://nba.nbcsports.com/2020/06/05/2020-nba-offseasons-could-be-shortest-and-among-longest-ever/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" target="_blank">historically short offseason</a>, LeBron has especially <a href="https://www.flyingeze.com/news/lebron-calls-all-star-game-slap-in-the-face-ill-be-there-physically-but-not-mentally" target="_blank" rel="noopener" target="_blank">chafed at the burden</a>. He&#8217;s still clearly putting in effort to be around his teammates by attending shootaround.
If he wants to spend time with his family or do anything else to unwind during Lakers games while injured, he should be supported in that.
And if that decision is at all designed to keep LeBron off his injured ankle, Vogel should just call it medically related.
That Vogel didn&#8217;t is curious and creates a little controversy around what should maybe be a non-issue.

Vogel said, “He’s just not here. He was with us at shootaround this morning.”

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Software developers at <a href="https://globalnews.ca/tag/queens-university/" target="_blank">Queen&#8217;s University</a> have officially launched a health sciences learning platform called Elentra that connects students, professors and curriculum virtually. The platform is also the first corporation ever owned by the university.
Based solely in Kingston, Ont., the corporation employs 17 people in the region and serves more than 30 institutions in Canada, the U.S.A., Singapore and the Middle East.
Over several years, the Queen&#8217;s School of Medicine&#8217;s IT department developed Elentra Corp in collaboration with 20 international medical schools. The business was incorporated by the university at the end of 2020 and officially launched on Tuesday.
		
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The platform includes features like cloud access to exams, assignments and to the grading system.
Although there are similar programs in the market, Faculty of Health Sciences dean Jane Philpott says students in health sciences programs recognized the need for a program tailored to medicine about fifteen years ago, so they created it from scratch.
&#8220;There are some really specific needs around medical education that were the birth of the Elentra system because we have specific training needs, like competency-based education, which indicates if a student is competent in their field,&#8221; Philpott says.
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Elentra was initially used as a tool to organize data for the Queen&#8217;s School of Medicine&#8217;s accreditation process. Since then, it has developed into a program that addresses the academic needs of health sciences programs, including curriculum mapping, assessment and evaluation, and online exam delivery. The program has the ability to collect data and facilitate administrative and academic decision-making while prioritizing user experience.
&#8220;Elentra&#8217;s commercialization is a wonderful example of the university&#8217;s ability to cultivate innovation and drive change in post-secondary education,&#8221; says  Queen&#8217;s principal and vice-chancellor, Patrick Deane.

Queen’s School of Medicine has launched its first-ever university-owned technology program that has already reached international users.

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<a href="https://www.flyingeze.com/p/lebron-hints-at-his-davis-return-soon-says-expect-thunderstorm" target="_blank">The thunderstorm may be on the horizon</a>, but it&#8217;s apparently not making land anytime soon.
<a class="nameLink" href="https://www.nbcsports.com/edge/basketball/nba/player/28859/lebron-james" target="_blank" target="_blank">LeBron James</a> is not expected to return for another three weeks from his high ankle sprain, <a href="https://twitter.com/wojespn" target="_blank">ESPN&#8217;s Adrian Wojnarowski</a> <a href="https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/31232943/los-angeles-lakers-anthony-davis-return-10-14-days-lebron-james-close-behind" target="_blank">reported on ABC&#8217;s pregame show</a> tonight before the Lakers vs. Nets game.
He added <a class="nameLink" href="https://www.nbcsports.com/edge/basketball/nba/player/29801/anthony-davis" target="_blank" target="_blank">Anthony Davis</a> is expected to miss another 10-14 with his <a href="https://www.flyingeze.com/p/anthony-davis-cleared-to-advance-his-on-court-work-no-return-timeline" target="_blank">calf strain and sore Achilles</a>. Davis will be re-evaluated this week by the team medical staff this week.
<a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CNau5JOhTwb/" target="_blank">On Instagram Thursday</a>, LeBron hinted he and Davis could return sooner than expected and said a thunderstorm was coming. Players can be the worst source of a return timeline because their competitive nature wants them to push through and get back on the court fast. However, the Lakers and their medical staff have every reason to be patient and be sure their stars are healthy — L.A. is a top-heavy roster that is not going far in the playoffs without those two in peak form.
The Lakers have gone 4-6 without their two stars so far, with wins coming thanks to a defense that has remained in the top five in the league during that stretch. However, the Los Angeles offense has fallen off to bottom five without LeBron and AD, and starting Saturday against Brooklyn the schedule gets much tougher.
The Lakers currently sit as the five seed in the West, two games back of red-hot Denver as the four seed, but just 1.5 games ahead of sixth seed Portland and 2.5 games up on seven-seed Dallas (another team playing very well of late). If LeBron is out until close to the end of April, the Lakers could fall back to the seven seed and be in the play-in games, something the franchise wants to avoid.
The West could see some jockeying in the weeks leading up to the playoffs as teams look to avoid LeBron, Davis, and the rest of the Lakers in the first round.

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WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) &#8212; Basketball legend Michael Jordan is donating $10 million to launch two medical clinics in underserved communities near his hometown in North Carolina, a regional health care system announced Monday.
The Novant Health clinics are set to open in early 2022 in New Hanover County along North Carolina&#8217;s southeastern coast, according to a statement from the system. The gift marks one of the largest ever from the Basketball Hall of Fame athlete, news outlets reported.
Jordan previously <a href="https://nba.nbcsports.com/2017/10/09/hornets-michael-jordan-donates-7-million-to-build-medical-clinics/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">gave $7 million</a> to open <a href="https://nba.nbcsports.com/2019/10/17/michael-jordan-opens-first-of-2-medical-clinics-in-charlotte/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michael Jordan Family Clinics</a> in Charlotte in 2019 and 2020. Those clinics have since seen more than 4,500 patients and have administered nearly 1,000 COVID-19 vaccines, Novant Health said.
&#8220;I am very proud to once again partner with Novant Health to expand the Family Clinic model to bring better access to critical medical services in my hometown,&#8221; Jordan said in a statement. &#8220;Everyone should have access to quality health care, no matter where they live, or whether or not they have insurance.&#8221;
Novant said the new clinics would bring services to &#8220;more rural and rural-adjacent communities&#8221; and to those who are uninsured or underinsured.
Jordan grew up in Wilmington before going on to play at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He later played 15 seasons in the NBA, winning six championships with the Chicago Bulls.
&#8220;Wilmington holds a special place in my heart and it&#8217;s truly gratifying to be able to give back to the community that supported me throughout my life,&#8221; he said.

Jordan: “Everyone should have access to quality health care, no matter where they live, or whether or not they have insurance.”

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