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Breastfeeding promotion: feeding the low birth weight infant
(1990)
Though there is still some reluctance to use human milk for low birth weight infants, we have shown that it is possible exclusively to feed these infants on milk from their own mothers. The infants have adequate weight ...
Road traffic injuries in Kenya a survey of commercial motorcycle drivers
(University of Nairobi, 2015)
ntroduction:Motorcycle injuries contribute a substantial number of deaths and hospital admissions in Kenya. There is paucity of data to inform
prevention strategies to address the issue. Therefore, the current study ...
Research utilization among nurses at a teaching hospital in Kenya.
(University of Nairobi, 2015-06)
INTRODUCTION:
In the era of evidence based practice (EBP), health care delivery should be grounded on new or validated knowledge and evidence from research. The aim of the study was to assess research utilization by ...
The effect of eight half-yearly single-dose treatments with DEC on Wuchereria bancrofti circulating antigenaemia
(2005)
The effect of eight half-yearly treatment rounds with diethylcarbamazine
(DEC; 6 mg/kg bodyweight) on Wuchereria bancrofti-specific circulating
filarial antigen (CFA), a marker of adult worm infection, was followed in ...
Does the "Baby Cloche" heat shield keep low birth-weight infants warm?
(Far East Journal of Theoretical Statistics, 1992)
To determine whether the "Baby Cloche" heat shield improves temperature control in low birth-weight infants we compared serial temperatures in 11 preterm infants nursed with or without the Cloche. Mean birth weights were ...
Drug utilization and cost patterns in selected health care facilities in Kenya
(1998)
Purposive sampling in 4 public and private health care facilities in Coast and Nyanza provinces, Kenya was conducted to determine the variations in the duration of hospitalization, number of therapeutic agents used in ...
East African Orthopaedic Journal
(African Journal Online, 2007)
The aim of the journal is to give orthopedic surgeons, technologists and other personnel within the orthopedic specialty a forum of diverging their research findings to the rest of the world. The journal comprises of ...
Epidemiological and clinical aspects of carcinoma of penis at Kenyatta National Hospital
(1995-06)
Thirty one patients with carcinoma of penis were studied retrospectively at Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi, over a 20-year period (1971-1990). The majority of patients presented late with symptomatology of over one ...
Ethnobotanical survey of food and medicinal plants of the Ilkisonko Maasai community in Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2015-10)
Aim of the study
Pastoralist communities such as the Maasai are heavily reliant on traditional foods and medicines. This survey sought to identify traditional foods and/or medicinal plants of the Ilkisonko Maasai community ...
Risk of Drug Resistance Among Persons Acquiring HIV Within a Randomized Clinical Trial of Single- or Dual-Agent Preexposure Prophylaxis
(University of Nairobi, 2015)
Background. Preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) with emtricitabine plus tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (FTC/TDF) or TDF alone reduces the risk of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) acquisition. Understanding the risk of ...