James Shaw Grant, Highland Villages

Integrated mosquito larval source management reduces larval numbers in two highland villages in western Kenya

BACKGROUND In western Kenya, malaria remains one of the major health problems and its control remains an important public health measure. Malaria control is by either use of drugs to treat patients infected with malaria parasites or by controlling the vectors. Vector control may target the free living adult or aquatic (larval) stages of mosquito. The most commonly applied control strategies tar...

Blood pressure in Papua New Guinea: a survey of two highland villages in the Asaro Valley.

The results of a population survey of blood pressure in the adult residents of two highland villages in the Asaro Valley, Papua New Guinea are reported. The survey was conducted in 1983 as part of a wider epidemiological investigation of non-communicable disease in Papua New Guinea. Response to the survey was 95%, and 308 subjects were examined. Population estimates of both systolic and diastol...

James P . Grant School of Public Health BRAC University Bangladesh Health System

Methamphetamine use and correlates in two villages of the highland ethnic Karen minority in northern Thailand: a cross sectional study

BACKGROUND The prevalence of methamphetamine use and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) incidence are high in lowland Thai society. Despite increasing social and cultural mixing among residents of highland and lowland Thai societies, however, little is known about methamphetamine use among ethnic minority villagers in the highlands. METHODS A cross-sectional survey examined Karen villagers fr...

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Three decades of basic cancer research have revealed that mutations in components of signalling pathways that control cell growth in primitive metazoans underlie tumour initiation in mammals. The Ras, PI(3)K and mTOR (mammalian target of rapamycin) signalling pathways form an intersecting biochemical network that, when mutated, drives cell growth in a manner unrestricted by environmental cues. ...