In 1851 Tudor Bilharz, a German physician working in Kasr EI Aini, discovered the bilharzia worm while performing a postmortem on a young patient. The Egyptians realized, in 1911 that if this disease ...

This survey of local diet was undertaken into two chiefdoms near Kalene Hill hospital during September, 1968. The inquiry was' undertaken` as a corollary to, and at the same time as, clinical studies of ...

Kaposi's Sarcoma with skin involvement is a common tumour in adult Zambian and African population living South of the Sahara (Naik, 1977). However, it is uncommon amongst Zambian children and constitutes ...

The Enteric Cytopathic Human Orphan virus commonly referred to by the acronym ECHO virus has been known to cause acute flaccid paralysis (AFP). Zambia has since 1993 run a national AFP surveillance program to primarily ...

Ectopic cilia, a rare disorder (Duke Elder 1964) of congenital positional anomaly of one or more hair follicles, where lashes may grow outwards from chin or conjunctiva. In this article we report such a case arising from ...

Rats were exposed to an ethanol-containing drinking mixture for 54, 84 and 105 days. It was shown that a progressive increase in liver choline dehydrogenase activity occurred which ...

Background: Voluntary counseling and testing (VCT) has been shown to help change sexual behaviour and to be cost effective in low income settings. Though VCT has been available for a long time in Zambia, acceptability ...

A case of failure of oral contraceptive pills in a woman receiving rifampicin has been reported and discussed.

Breech presentation occurs when the fetus presents with buttocks or feet first. Globally, the incidence of breech is 3-4% at term. The safest mode of delivery for most breeches at term is still controversial despite extensive ...

Fractures of the neck of femur under the age of 14 years are so rare that few surgeons have much experience with them. Hamilton (1961) predicted that an orthopaedic surgeon would see one case in a lifetime, Quiulan ...