Poverty, a global issue, plaguing developed as well as developing nations, has become the focus of economists since early 1950s. During the last two decades, this issue has received enormous worldwide attention and various international organizations have issued their findings regarding reasons of poverty and possible remedies to its reduction and/or eradication in the world. One of the compone...

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Much of the merchandise produced by U.S. companies and sold to U.S. consumers is manufactured by workers in third world countries who earn as little as 12 cents per hour drudging away in harsh and even dangerous work environments. Such workplaces are referred to as sweatshops and are especially common in the apparel and shoe industries and in toy making. Many critics object to sweatshops on the...

We report the case of a man in his late 30s, referred by one of the authors for management of cardiac hydatid disease. He had presented to his local clinic with exertional angina, occasional haemoptysis and shortness of breath. An interventricular cyst had been demonstrated on ultrasound, and the patient was transported by fl ying doctor to our charity-based Kenyan heart surgery centre. Clinica...

THECREATION AND DISSEMINATION of knowledge is a complex process in any society, and is particularly difficult in the Third World, where the economic, intellectual, and institutional structures of the scientific community are not well established. This article1 focuses on the dissemination of knowledge in the Third World. The article is predicated on the idea that knowledge dissemination is espe...

Simulation/games have been widely used in many disciplines to represent the complexities of multiple decisions under conditions of uncertainty. They have been used in military training exercises for over 150 years, in business management training for over 30 years, and in urban planning for almost 20 years. Through deliberate abstraction of a problem to its basic elements, simula-tion games all...

Background: Although referring patients to community services is important for optimum continuity of care, referrals between hospital and community sectors are often problematic. Nurses are well positioned to inform patients about referral resources. The objective of this study is to describe the impact of implementing six nursing best practice guidelines (BPGs) on nurses' familiarity with pati...

cytochrome P450 family and the glu-tathione S-transferase-are now well known from both human and animal studies to play an important role in the metabolism of carcinogens. * A better understanding of the potential differences in a tumor suppressor gene pathway in chemically induced and spontaneous kidney cancer. * An understanding of the different capacities of cells for DNA repair. Two types o...

T he publ icat ion of a paper by the Cochrane Injuries Group Albumin Reviewers [BMJ 1998; 317(7153):235-240] gives us a good example of the importance of the Cochrane Collaboration for medical practice and rcscarch. In spite 01" have being used for more than 50 years, alburnin infusion in criiical patients has not yet been properly studieel. This syste matic review, initially publisheel in the ...