Referral of extremely low birthweight infants (less than 1001 g) from district hospitals in a geographically defined area to a specialist regional centre significantly improved their chances of survival.

childbirth is associated with poorchild growth in developingcountries.We describe the association between psychologicalmorbidityduringpregnancy and lowbirthweight (52.5 kg).Acohort of 270 motherswas recruited froma district hospital in Goa,India; allmothers were interviewedwith a screening questionnaire for psychologicalmorbidity. Babies of 250 motherswere reviewed at birthtomeasure their weigh...

BACKGROUND The theme of the 2014 Southern African Rural Health Conference was 'Building resilience in facing rural realities'. Retaining health professionals in South Africa is critical for sustainable health services. Only 12% of doctors and 19% of nurses have been retained in the rural areas. The aim of the workshop was to understand from health practitioners why they continued working in the...

Figure S1: Relative levels of transduction proteins in retinal homogenates from CNGβ1∆CaM, CNGβ1∆CaM/GCAPs −/− and GCAPs −/−-mice as compared to WT mice. Fluorescence signals were detected and quantified using the Odyssey R infrared imaging system (LI-COR Biosciences). The values were normalized to those of actin. Normalized value of each protein was subsequently normalized to that of WT (Mean ...

Davidson H. Hamer,* David R. Marsh, Stefan Peterson, and Franco Pagnoni Center for Global Health and Development, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts; Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of International Health, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts; Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts; Zambia Centre for Appl...

Epilepsy 1093 The LaLiMo Trial: lamotrigine compared with levetiracetam in the initial 26 weeks of monotherapy for focal and generalised epilepsyd–an open-label, prospective, randomised controlled multicenter study F Rosenow, C Schade-Brittinger, N Burchardi, S Bauer, K M Klein, Y Weber, H Lerche, S Evers, S Kovac, S Hallmeyer-Elgner, G Winkler, J Springub, M Niedhammer, E Roth, I Eisensehr, J ...

BACKGROUND We wanted to try to account for worker motivation as a key factor that might affect the success of an intervention to improve implementation of health worker practices in eight district hospitals in Kenya. In the absence of available tools, we therefore aimed to develop a tool that could enable a rapid measurement of motivation at baseline and at subsequent points during the 18-month...