Cause-specific mortality rates in sub-Saharan Africa and Bangladesh (Publications)
OBJECTIVE: To provide internationally comparable data on the frequencies of different causes of death. METHODS: We analysed verbal autopsies obtained during 1999 -2002 from 12 demographic surveillance
Community-directed treatment of onchocerciasis with ivermectin in Takum, Nigeria (Publications)
A study to identify factors within the community that can ensure sustainable community-directed treatment (ComDT) with ivermectin compared the effectiveness of programme-designed (PD) and community- d
Neonatal respiratory distress syndrome in Switzerland: a comparison of a survey and official statistics (Publications)
A survey in all neonatal intensive care units in Switzerland showed that most children with a birth weight below 2000 g (identified in the birth statistics) are hospitalised in those units. Also compa
Breast cancer screening: should it be introduced and how? (Publications)
This brief discussion of the papers by Gastrin and Paccaud is looking at differences in the results of different study types. Introducing screening means changing unsystematic to systematic screening:
Comparison of SYBR Green I-, PicoGreen-, and [H-3]-hypoxanthine-based assays for in vitro antimalarial screening of plants from Nigerian ethnomedicine (Publications)
The standard method for in vitro antimalarial drug screening is based on the isotopic assay which is expensive and utilizes radioactive materials with limited availability, safety, and disposal proble
Cost-effectiveness of iron supplementation and malaria chemoprophylaxis in the prevention of anaemia and malaria among Tanzanian infants (Publications)
Prerequisites for effective interventions against severe anaemia and malaria among infants are economic evaluations to aid the setting of priorities and the making of health policy. In the present stu