The object of this study is to summarise causes of stillbirths and postnatal deaths based on a review board meeting of Obstetricians and Paediatricians in Mulago Hospital, so as to try and prevent these causes in future. ...

Birth injury is defined by Potter (1961) as any condition that affects the foetus adversely during labour or delivery. The definition in Nelson’s Textbook of Pediatrics is quite in agreement. These birth injuries are further ...

Thirty patients with malaria were studied. Seven had cerebral malaria, ten severe and thirteen non-severe malaria. Age ranged from seven weeks to eight years with equal sex distribution. All were febrile except two infants ...

Africa in particular East Africa is in a rapid process of remolding herself in attempt to catch up with the rest of the developed world. She is undergoing a process of industrialisation which is accompanied by increasing ...

Section I: literature is reviewed and the pattern of the development of immunity in a population exposed to high malarial endemicity is followed. This is followed by a brief discussion of specific aspects of malarial ...

Chronic pancreatic disease may be defined pathologically as a condition characterized by loss of pancreatic lobular architecture with replacement of most of the parenchyma by fibrous tissue. These features are accompanied ...

The history of syphilis in Uganda, the clinical patterns, and the cellular immune mechanisms among the indigenous subjects with syphilis have been studied. Concerning the history it was shown and discussed that the disease ...

In this paper, literature on subject of absenteeism in industrialized countries was reviewed briefly, and a passing commentary made on what the pattern of absenteeism in Uganda was likely to be. A short history of the ...

Using 25gm oral dose D-xylose tolerance test was performed on 19 normal subjects and 24 subjects with fever. In the normal subjects, blood D-xylose levels showed a peak between one and two hours and then declined gradually ...

The teaching of general practice in the undergraduate medical curriculum now takes place in all medical schools in the United Kingdom. The main expansion has taken place after the Report of the Royal Commission on Medical ...