Medical

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    Worldwide Healing Hands’ First Medical Mission in Rwanda was a Success! 

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    In developing countries like Rwanda and Uganda, cervical cancer is the most common type of cancer-related death. It claims the lives of more than 300,000 women annually. Since 2012, Worldwide Healing Hands (WHH) has made extraordinary strides to train healthcare workers in low-resource settings how to prevent, screen and treat this disease quickly and effectively.…

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    Recognizing Ignaz Semmelweis & Handwashing

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    Doogle recognizes Hungarian physician Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis, widely attributed as the first person to discover the medical benefits of handwashing. On this day in 1847, Semmelweis was appointed Chief Resident in the maternity clinic of the Vienna General Hospital, where he deduced and demonstrated that requiring doctors to disinfect their hands vastly reduced the transmission…

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    Worldwide Healing Hands Provides Health Screenings

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    Volunteer Christine Dalva, FNP provides medical care at free clinic LAKEPORT, CA – Worldwide Healing Hands (WHH) volunteers conducted free health screening events at the Warming Center on two dates in March, offering consultations and health checks at the center set up in the Lakeport Community Seventh-Day Adventist Church. The events were the first of…

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    The Clean Delivery Kit: A Lifesaving Birthing Kit that fits in a Sandwich Bag

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    Teaching Tindarwesire (a TBA in Bufundi, Uganda) how to open a clean delivery kit Items that fit into a sandwich bag can save thousands of mothers’ lives every year. Sounds too good to be true, doesn’t it? The Clean Delivery Kit has: A clean plastic liner to put on the ground so the mother doesn’t…

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    Uganda Mission Volunteer Team 2015

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    We have a wonderful and dedicated team of volunteer medical professionals lined up for our first mission to Uganda. Our goal is to share our skills in this remote area of Uganda at the Muko Health Center IV, so that our work is sustainable. The team will be led by Dr. Paula R. Dhanda and…

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    9 Gynecologic Cancer Symptoms You Shouldn’t Ignore

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    September is Gynecologic Cancer Awareness month. Five main types of cancer affect a woman’s reproductive organs: cervical, ovarian, uterine, vaginal and vulvar. As a group, they are referred to as gynecologic cancers. Each gynecologic cancer is unique, with different signs, symptoms, and risk factors

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    Breast Cancer Awareness

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    Breast cancer PSA from Lou Lesko on Vimeo. Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer diagnosed in women each year in the United States. This beautiful video was directed by the talented Lou Lesko

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