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Causation and prevention of stillbirths and postnatal deaths: Mulago Hospital, 1970-1971
(1973)
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. ...
Developing methods of evaluation appropriate to undergraduate teaching in general practice at Glasgow University
(University of Glasgow, 1977-04)
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 ...
D-xylose absorption in Ugandan patients with fever
(1973)
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 epidemiology of tetanus in Busoga
(1975-02)
During a brief period of 4 weeks in October 1974, a study was conducted about factors associated with the high frequency of TETANUS in Busoga previously reported from analysis of Jinja Hospital records. 36 cases of tetanus ...
A retrospective study of mental illnesses among Makerere University students over the period 1965-1974
(1977-03)
The necessary data for this study was extracted from the student case notes in the student sick bay of Makerere University, the Registrar’s Office of Makerere Main Hall building and from the individual halls of residence. ...
Primary schools' survey: (Kyadondo County, West Buganda, Uganda)
(1973)
Some work has already been done on school health in Uganda. But with the quick pace in scientific research in this field, it’s necessary that field surveys be carried out to focus our attention on the most common problems ...
Risks to tuberculosis among freshers in Makerere University Kampala 1970-1974
(1975-03)
Tuberculosis has been known to physicians and laymen or centuries. It was mentioned by the posts in their writings. It is now known that tuberculosis is a world wide disease. A conservative estimate of the problem by the ...
Incidence of Australia antigen in Ugandan subjects with sickle cell disease
(1973)
Two hundred patients with homozygous S-haemoglobinopathy (HbSS) were assayed for Au-Ag and Au-Ab. Three (1.5%) patients had positive Au-Ag and one (0.5%) was positive for Au-Ag. The results indicate that the incidence of ...
The heamatological manifestations of rheumatoid arthritis in Ugandan patients
(1978)
The heamatological manifestations were studied in 107 Ugandan Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) patients, of whom 82 and 25 were retrospectively and prospectively respectively studied. A mild to moderate normocytic, normochromic ...
Cardiovascular findings in patients with sickle cell disease
(1974)
Fifty homozygous sicklers and ten heterozygous sickle cell patients selected from the Sickle Cell Clinic, Cardiac Clinic and inpatients on the medical wards of Mulago Hospital form the basis of this dissertation. It starts ...