orking with cancer patients for a number of years, I have met many caretakers. They have been husbands and wives, daughW ters and sons, neighbors and friends. Although it is not original with me, the concept that people are made patients by the disease of others is worthy of our attention as therapists. My cancer work served to acquaint me with the long hours, the often unacknowledged duties, t...

BACKGROUND This study sought to determine the level of adherence to Coartem© in the routine treatment of uncomplicated malaria among children under the age of five years in Nyando district, Kenya. METHODS Seventy-three children below the age of five years with microscopically confirmed uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria and prescribed Coartem(®) during the normal outpatient departmen...

The notion that targeted drugs can unplug gain-of-function tumor pathways has revitalized pharmaceutical research, but the survival benefits of this strategy have so far proven modest. A weakness of oncogene-blocking approaches is that they do not address the problem of cancer progression as selected by the recessive phenotypes of genetic instability and apoptotic resistance which in turn arise...

Poultry management experts think in terms of tens or hundreds of thousands of birds. They usually prefer systems which require a skilled mechanic as much as a poultry caretaker. As a result, chickens are often seen as some sort of odd little machine that has feathers, squawks, and struggles if caught. This loss of contact between the caretaker and his charges is often associated with lackof rec...

In a wide variety of species, a female's age of first reproduction influences offspring size and survival, suggesting that there exists an optimal timing of reproduction. Mothers in many species also influence offspring size and survival after birth through variation in parental care. We experimentally separated these effects in the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides to test for coadaptati...

In the beginning, a boa constrictor defecated in London and the subsequent development of nuclear medicine was inevitable. It took a little time, but the 139-yr chain of cause and effect that followed was inexorable ( 1 ). One June week in 1815 an exotic animal exhibition was held on the Strand in London. A young "animal chemist" named William Prout (we would now call him a clinical pathologist...

This Community Service activity was carried out at LKSA Al-Akbar Orphanage, Maharatu District, Pekanbaru city. In this activity, the target is administrators who also act as foster parents for children Orphanage Pekanbaru. activities are a form of counseling, discussion, socialization by providing education to caretaker or orphanage regarding pattern interpersonal communication in shaping chara...

The state governors in Nigeria have manipulated the local government councils to extent that they appoint their cronies and loyalists as caretaker committee chairmen without regard constitutional provisions for democratically elected council chairmen. In all cases, choice of appointees is not always wishes people masses at grassroot rejected them. most fundamental problem inherent committees ar...