Bronchial asthma at high altitude: a clinical and laboratory study in Addis Ababa.

Causes and clinical characteristics of chronic cor-pulmonale in Ethiopia.

OBJECTIVE To determine the clinical characteristics and underlying causes of chronic cor-pulmonale in Ethiopian patients. DESIGN A hospital based cross-sectional study. SETTING Tikur Anbessa Hospital, a large referral hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. SUBJECTS Fourty two consecutive patients referred to the chest clinic of Tikur Anbessa Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. RESULTS Bronchia...

Knowledge Diffusion to Workplace Safety and Health Improvement

The purpose of this study is to develop a conceptual model of Workplace safety and Health Knowledge diffusion. As workplace safety is becoming a global issue in the competitiveness of the business environment, knowledge diffusion model to workplace safety is found a mandatory tool to create awareness of the society and conceptual model is developed. Literature review was conducted in collecting...

ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY Assessment of Bacterial Resistance Trend and Contributing Factors to Fluoroquinolone among Patients’ Specimens Analyzed At International Clinical Laboratories in Addis Ababa

Density in Relation to Patterns of Built-forms (Case Study: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)

Density is a critical typology in determining sustainable urban built-form patterns. Built-formrefers to the assemblage and arrangement of the building masses in a city reflecting the spatial layout of spaces.The relationship between density and urban character is also based on at certain densities (thresholds). In a widersense, sustainable cities are a matter of density. Recent debates about t...

A Study on Clinical Efficacy of Lepidium Sativum Seeds in Treatment of Bronchial Asthma

The present investigation was carried out to determine the efficacy and safety of Lepidium sativum (L. sativum) (Garden Cress, Fam: Cruciferae) in patients of bronchial asthma. L. sativum seed powder was given at a dose of 1 gm thrice a day orally to 30 patients of either sex in the range of 15-80 years with mild to moderate bronchial asthma without any concurrent medication. The respiratory fu...