OBJECTIVE To describe age- and sex-specific rates of child homicide in South Africa. METHODS A cross-sectional mortuary-based study was conducted in a national sample of 38 medicolegal laboratories operating in 2009. These were sampled in inverse proportion to the number that were operational in each of three strata defined by autopsy volume: < 500, 500-1499 or > 1499 annual autopsies. Child ...

BACKGROUND There is increasing interest in the choice of health care providing facility in Nigeria. OBJECTIVES This study aimed to assess the factors influencing choice and satisfaction with health service providers among local government staff. METHODS A cross sectional survey of all 312 workers in a Local Government Secretariat in South West Nigeria was done. Chi Square and logistic regre...

Bird migration systems must have changed dramatically during the glacial–interglacial cycles of the Pleistocene and as novel habitats became available since the last glacial maximum. This study combines molecular dating of population divergence times with a review of polarcentred palaeovegetation and intertidal habitats world-wide to present a hypothesis for the evolution of Red Knot Calidris c...

Dengue virus infection is increasingly being recognized as the world's major emerging tropical disease. 1 Every year about 2.5 billion people worldwide are at risk of dengue. The disease infects an estimated 50 to 100 million individuals and, in some years, is responsible for around as many as 500 000 hospital admissions. An average 22 000 people die annually from the disease, three times more ...

Recent years have seen increasing interest in sending a mission to Uranus, visited so far only by Voyager 2 1986. EURO (Elliptical Uranian Relativity Orbiter) is preliminary concept investigating the possibility of dynamically measuring planet's angular momentum means Lense-Thirring effect affecting putative orbiter. It possible, at least principle, separate relativistic precessions orbital inc...

OBJECTIVE To analyze the status and trend of injury deaths in Chinese people, and provide basic evidence for injury interventions. METHODS Data came from 2004-2005 the 3rd national retrospective sampling survey of death cause and covered 31 province-level regions and 160 surveillance spots in the interior of China, Total 142 660 482 person years were investigated. To describe the status of in...

UK guidelines no longer recommend routine screening of household contacts of adult patients with extrapulmonary TB (EPTB). From 27 March 2012 to 28 June 2016, we investigated the prevalence of active TB disease in household contacts of 1023 EPTB index cases in North West England, and compared estimates with: published new entrant migrant screening programme prevalence (~147/100 000 person-years...