Sleeping Sickness in Travelers - Do They Really Sleep?

Sleeping Sickness in Travelers - Do They Really Sleep?

The number of imported Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT) cases in non-endemic countries has increased over the last years. The objective of this analysis is to describe the clinical presentation of HAT in Caucasian travelers. Literature was screened (MEDLINE, Pubmed) using the terms "Human African Trypanosomiasis", "travelers" and "expatriates"; all European languages except Slavic ones were ...

They really do go.

While it is technically correct that 70-80% of rural or underserved origin candidates do not go ‘outside’ current concentrations of physicians and health resources, the appropriate statistical analysis reveals that they really do go at rates 2, 4, 6, or 10 times higher than the typical medical students. Others also go, such as the 75% of rural physicians who have urban origins or those with top...

Metrics, Do They Really Help?

Maturing a well designed framework requires a set of software metrics to steer the iterative development process. Based on a case study of the VisualWorks/Smalltalk framework for user-interface building, we conclude that today’s size and inheritance metrics are not reliable to detect problems but are useful in measuring stability. We expect that this work will contribute to the application of m...

Controlling Sleeping Sickness—“When Will They Ever Learn?”

The recent announcement that WHO has approved the use of a combination of nifurtimox and eflornithine to treat chronic Gambian sleeping sickness, caused by Trypanosoma brucei gambiense, is a welcome step in the seemingly interminable process of searching for less toxic drugs to treat this devastating disease [1]. Arsenical drugs were first used in 1905; melarsoprol remains the drug most frequen...

Sleep Disturbance in Travelers