Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS): Recent submissions
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Effects of childhood sexual abuse; a case presentation
(University of NairobiDepartment Of Psychiatry, 2013-06) -
Prevalence And Determinants Of Needle Stick Injuries At Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi Kenya
(University of NairobiCollege of Health Sciences, 2013-06)In Kenya, there is little information on Needlestick injuries. In Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH), information on needlestick injuries is not clear yet more than 50% of its workers are exposed to these dangerous but ... -
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Among Widow Survivors Of The 1994 Rwandese Genocide (2009)
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Effect Of Fresh Aqueous Garlic Extract (allium Sativum L.) On Erythropoiesis In Adult Male Rabbits: A Study On Peripheral Blood Analysis
(University of NairobiCollege of Health Sciences, 2013-06)Garlic (Allium sativum L.) is a cultivated plant. Its wild progenor originated in the high planes of West-Central Asia. It has been widely used as food and medicine. Its effects have been demonstrated in both animals and ... -
Assessment Of Radiation Exposure During Interventional Procedures In Kenya
(University of NairobiCollege of Health Sciences, 2013-06)Background: The increasing number of interventional procedures in Kenya benefits many patients and results in radiation burden. Some patient radiation dose studies in developed countries have reported patients’ cumulative ... -
Revised Mmed Psychiatry/Msc Clinical curricula
(University of NairobiDepartment Of Psychiatry, 2013) -
Assessment Of Quality Management In The Use Of Computed Tomography Machines In Kenya
(University of NairobiCollege of Health Sciences, 2013-06)Background: The use of x-rays in radiation imaging is ever increasing in magnitude with increase in radiological procedures, and complexity of radiology equipment, Computed Tomography (CT) scanning included. Quality ... -
Trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder in Africa
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The Survival Of Patients With Cancer Of The Cervix In Nairobi, Kenya
(University of NairobiCollege of Health Sciences, 2013-06)Background: Cervical cancer ranks as the second most frequent cancer among women globally. Most patients present at advanced stages, leading to high mortality rates. Information on the survival of cervical cancer patients ... -
Child Marriage; A Cultural Health Phenomenon
(University of NairobiCollege of Health Sciences, 2013-06)Child marriage continues to be a challenge worldwide and especially in southern Asia and Africa. While it affects both sexes, girls are more affected as they are the majority of the victims.It is predicted by the UNFPA ... -
The Demographic And Clinical Characteristics Of Children Diagnosed With Rickets Who Presented To Msf Clinics From Informal Settlement Of Kibera, Nairobi, Kenya.
(University of NairobiCollege of Health Sciences, 2013-06)Objectives: In primary health care clinics run by Médecins Sans Frontières in the informal settlement of Kibera, Nairobi, we describe the demographic and clinical characteristics of children with rickets from September ... -
MALARIA CASE-MANAGEMENT FOLLOWING CHANGE OF POLICY TO CONFIRMED DIAGNOSIS AND TARGETED ACT TREATMENT IN KENYA
(University of NairobiSchool of Medicine, 2013)Background: In 2010, the major change in malaria case-management policy in Kenya was a shift from presumptive treatment of fevers to universal parasitological diagnosis and targeted treatment with artemether-lumefantrine ... -
Safety And Contraceptive Studies Of Unipron
(University of NairobiCollege of Health Sciences, 2013-06)Introduction: Two of the major challenges in reproductive health are the failure to reduce family size and acquisition of Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) including Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). Limited ... -
Lack of efficacy of low dose oral interferon alfa in symptomatic HIV-1 infection: a randomised, double blind, placebo controlled trial.
(University of NairobiSchool of Medicine, 1999-11)Mycobacterium tuberculosis is associated with the activation of cytokine circuits both at sites of active tuberculosis in vivo and in cultures of mononuclear cells stimulated by M. tuberculosis or its components in vitro. ... -
Chemokine receptor 5 △32 allele in patients with severe pandemic (H1N1) 2009.
(University of NairobiDepartment of Medical Microbiology,, 2010-10)Because chemokine receptor 5 (CCR5) may have a role in pulmonary immune response, we explored whether patients with severe pandemic (H1N1) 2009 were more likely to carry the CCR5Δ32 allele than were members of the general ... -
B15 heterogeneity in East African Blacks
(University of Nairobi,School of Nairobi,, 1980-10)One-hundred-forty-one Blacks (135 unrelated) from Kenya and Tanzania have been tissue-typed (HLA-A, B and C loci) as part of a study of host factors involved in Burkitt's lymphoma and naso-pharyngeal carcinoma. Evidence ... -
A preliminary pharmacological study of wisanine, a piperidine type alkaloid from the roots of Piper guineense [proceedings].
(Department of Pharmacology, 1977) -
Acute renal failure as seen at Kenyatta National Hospital.
(University of NairobiCollege of Health Sciences, 1992-02)Forty seven patients with acute renal failure were studied prospectively over a two-year period at the Kenyatta National Hospital. There were 20 males and 27 females. The mortality rate was 40.4%. Most patients had medically ... -
Some clinicopathologic and prognostic data in malignant lymphomas diagnosed at Kenyatta National Hospital over a 13 year period
(University of Nairobi,Faculty of Medicine, 1988-08)