Browsing School of Bio-Medical Sciences (Bio-Medical) Collections by Issue Date "2008"

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    • Adolescent motherhood in Uganda: Dilemmas, health seeking behaviour and coping responses 

      Atuyambe, Lynn Muhimbuura (2008)
      Introduction: Maternal mortality remains one of the most daunting public health problems in resource limited settings. Maternal health services play a critical role in the improvement of sexual and reproductive health and ...

    • Female genital tuberculosis in Uganda 

      Othieno, E.; Odida, M.; Gemagaine, G.; Okwi, A.; Bimenya, G. S.; Wandabwa, J. (African Journal of Animal and Biomedical Sciences., 2008)
      A retrospective clinico-pathological study of 39 cases of female genital tuberculosis (FGTB) observed from 1976 – 1986 was conducted in the Department of Pathology, Medical School, Makerere University. The frequency of ...

    • Inpatient mortality in children with clinically diagnosed malaria as compared with microscopically confirmed malaria 

      Opoka, Robert O.; Xia, Zongqi; Bangirana, Paul; Chandy, C. John (Lippincott Wilkins & Williams, 2008)
      Background: Inpatient treatment for malaria without microscopic confirmation of the diagnosis occurs commonly in sub-Saharan Africa. Differences in mortality in children who are tested by microscopy for Plasmodium falciparum ...

    • Programmed cell death in neurodegenerative brain disease 

      Okwi, A.L.; Parkes, A. (2008)
      Death of brain cells by either apoptosis or necrosis is the hall mark of the pathology of most brain infections such as Alzheimer’s disease and AIDS dementia. The death of astrocytes in association with brain tumours appears ...