BACKGROUND The potential for community health workers to improve child health in sub-Saharan Africa is not well understood. Healthy Child Uganda implemented a volunteer community health worker child health promotion model in rural Uganda. An impact evaluation was conducted to assess volunteer community health workers' effect on child morbidity, mortality and to calculate volunteer retention. ...

BACKGROUND Gastric emptying in the first 2 h after 7 ml kg(-1) of sugared clear fluid has recently been investigated in healthy children using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). This study aims to compare gastric volume and emptying half-life during 1 h after 3 or 7 ml kg(-1) sugared clear fluid intake. METHODS Fourteen healthy volunteer children aged 11.1 (8.2-12.5) yr were investigated prosp...

Ross Graham (RG): What attracted you to public health? Trevor Hancock (TH): After four years of family practice, I was tired of patching people up and sending them back into the war. I wanted to go upstream. This interest was also triggered by my involvement in ecological politics and my work at a health centre in Etobicoke where the majority of patients were on some form of social support. The...

Male pattern androgenetic alopecia (AGA) is associated with oxidative stress.    Ischemia modified albumin (IMA) due to modification caused by reactive oxygen species which occur during ischemia.to evaluate IMA levels in AGA patients and compare their healthy control. The four study groups were group (A) included thirty obese AGA, (B) non-obese (C) ten normal volunteer (D) non volunteer. severi...