To assess the impact of a 7-year intensive health education campaign about leprosy delivered by workers of the Kindwitwi Leprosy Trust to schoolchildren and general public in Rufiji District. Knowledge, attitude and beliefs towards leprosy were measured in Rufiji and compared to neighbouring Kisarawe District as control. Lessons learned from this analysis may be useful for the planning and eval...

BACKGROUND Breastfeeding involves learning for women and their infants. For emotional, social, and developmental reasons this type of feeding is recommended for all newborn infants but for those in exceptional circumstances. The objective of this study was to gain a better understanding of what is needed in the early days to enable women to initiate and continue breastfeeding their infants. M...

There has been considerable progress in recent years in developing psychosocial interventions for people who experience persistent psychotic symptoms. However, it is sometimes difficult to generalise these findings into routine clinical practice. Long-term, psychodynamically informed, supportive psychotherapy is a valuable approach for working with individuals for whom current psychosocial inte...

This paper describes one year's experience with the running of a special postnatal ward area, established so that babies who needed more treatment and monitoring than is generally undertaken on postnatal wards but who did not need the facilities of the neonatal unit could be kept by their mother's bedside. This 'intermediate care ward' admitted 297 babies with their mothers during its first yea...

Cardiotoxicity is an important side effect of cytotoxic drugs and may be a risk factor of long-term morbidity for both patients during therapy and also for staff exposed during the phases of manipulation of antiblastic drugs. The mechanism of cardiotoxicity studied in vitro and in vivo essentially concerns the formation of free radicals leading to oxidative stress, with apoptosis of cardiac cel...

Gary Alan Miller [1] Director Gary Alan Miller serves as the Director of University Career Services. He previously worked at Carolina from 1994-1999 and 2008-2014 before returning to UCS in 2017 ? he can?t stay away! Gary was born in Tennessee, but has also called Atlanta, Seattle, and New York home over the past 25 years. He holds degrees from Middle Tennessee State University and Georgia Stat...