Kaposi’s sarcoma, a relatively rare malignancy in the Caucasian world has proved to be surprisingly common in certain parts of Africa particularly the Congo, East Africa and Rhodesia. There is still a great deal of mystique ...

The main purpose of the survey was to determine the magnitude, causes and distribution of malnutrition in the area of survey with the hope that the attention of policy-makers and administrators who are ultimately responsible ...

In all types of chemotherapeutic trials one reads of persons who are not cured of their infection by the agent being tested. In fact, it is on a favourable ratio of “cured” patients to those who are not cured, that in the ...

Anaemia is known to be prevalent among African women of the childbearing age groups in South and Central Africa, and it has been suggested by Davidson (1964) that iron deficiency is the commonest cause. The most likely ...

It was an early impression when commencing work in a medical unit at 'Harare Hospital that a large proportion of patients failed to return to the out-patient clinic on discharge from hospital despite the chronic or serious ...

The concept of “suppressive management” in the control of bilharziasis has long been an attractive idea. If it were possible to administer a dose of a schistosomicidal drug once a week, particularly to children attending ...

Acne is so common a complaint that junior school children know that some of them will develop spots and pimples as they grow up and that as they mature they will grow out of them.Their doctors will tell their parents that ...

The development of resistance to antibiotics is so prevalent that it is prudent continuously to monitor the patterns of sensitivity in organisms likely to become involved. Particularly important are the staphylococci and ...

The -influenza pandemic of 1918 caused the deaths of some 20 million people throughout the world and was probably the worst epidemic in human history with the exceptions of New Guinea, St. Helena and certain South Pacific ...

The studies of the effects of treatment on individual patients suffering from bilharziasis has been a feature of the work of this Laboratory for some years (Blair et al. 1969b). From this work has emerged some interesting ...