1. Good for journal club
(Comments)

This might be good for journal club. Simple, with a practical application. Could also be duplicated fairly easily in an African hospital.

2. Consider for journal club
(Comments)

This one might be good for journal club. Simple, possible to duplicate.

3. Our morning at the refugee camp
(Stories/Staff stories)

...as well as rising tempers. All in a day’s work in Jos, Nigeria …. Dr. Michael Mitchell, SIM missionary and ENT surgeon at Evangel. See the Mitchells' Blog ...

4. Dealing with enterocutaneous fistulas at Evangel
(Stories/Staff stories)

...ed, severely malnourished and anemic and some near death. Our approach in helping them is pretty simple; they need food – protein – so we put them on a regimented schedule of taking ...

5. Jet lag: trends and coping strategies (Lancet Seminar)
(Journal Club/Travel Medicine)

...sociated with travel fatigue and jet lag, the symptoms of which are considered here, along with their similarities, differences, and causes. Difficulties with jet lag because of sleep loss and decre...

6. Staff supervision and financial incentives improve in-hospital mortality in childhood malaria
(Journal Club/Pediatrics)

...m as increased salary, will it still have any effect as an incentive, or will the new, higher salaries simply be a new baseline from which additional "incentives" will need to be offered? ...

7. Baby Hannah
(Stories/Patients)

The two day old baby looked so tiny in the middle of the full-size ICU bed. The whole left side of her head and her left eye were swollen and bruised, with scratches here and there. Now and then she w

8. Cholera: A New Homeland in Africa?
(Journal Club/Infectious Diseases)

"The reported incidence of indigenous cholera in sub-Saharan Africa in 2005 ... was 95 times higher than the reported incidence in Asia ... and 16,600 times higher than the reported incidence in

9. Intradermal rabies vaccine safe and effective in Thai children
(Journal Club/Public Health)

...jects developed RVNA titers > or =0.5 IU/mL and demonstrated a rapid increase in RVNA titer after 2 simulated post-exposure booster immunizations 1 year after the primary vaccination series. No ser...

10. New Digital X-Ray Machine for Evangel
(News/News at Evangel)

Evangel hospital last week unveiled its brand new digital x-ray machine. For some time we have been struggling with our old machines, and the last one was starting to give images of rather poor qualit

11. The anatomy of a malaria disaster: Modeling malaria epidemics and child mortality
(Journal Club/Malaria)

...ological and clinical failure rates, and community morbidity and mortality rates. Through mathematical simulations of the spread of parasite mutations through a population exposed to high-endemic mala...

12. Oral Drug Therapy for Multiple Neglected Tropical Diseases
(Journal Club/Public Health)

...g here ... "Data Synthesis Twenty-nine RCTs were identified, of which 3 targeted 4 diseases simultaneously, 20 targeted 3 diseases, and 6 targeted 2 diseases. Trials were published between ...

13. Some poliomyelitis in Nigeria comes from mutated vaccine virus
(Journal Club/Public Health)

...but where live vaccine was still used, 100% of (non-imported) cases were due to vaccine, because there simply was no wild-type virus. Polio in Nigeria Traced to Mutating Vaccine. New York Times O...

14. "Syndromic management" may be, well, useless (?) for chlamydia and N. gonorrhea in Batswana women
(Journal Club/Public Health)

...charge were not predictive of the infections. In fact, the signs and symptoms were no more useful than simply knowing the socio-demographic factors (such as age and education) alone. The authors ...

15. Latest senior registrar
(News/News for Doctors)

Congratulations to Dr Benjamin Sumi who, having passed his exams, is now the latest senior registrar in Evangel! Keep the good work going.

16. Zinc and child mortality: what is known?
(Journal Club/Public Health)

...study were a 32% reduction of mortality, we could expect to get the observed results in at least 5% of similar studies. We have not ruled out an effect even as large as a one-third reduction in mortal...

17. The many benefits of ivermectin??
(Journal Club/Public Health)

...as I can tell, there was no control group, no pre- and post-test comparison, no longitudinal data, ... simply asking people what results they had seen. Hence, a better title would be, "Perceived ...

18. Depression common in elderly Nigerians
(Journal Club/Public Health)

Psychiatry tends to be a neglected area in the developing world, perhaps because of the priority of ensuring physical survival. Whatever the causes, this study shows that in the "happiest country

19. Making it known: – The AIDS Cube: rapid unforgettable learning
(AIDSLink/Resources)

...es: what is AIDS? how do you get it? How can you not get it? The size of a Rubik's cube, it is a clear simple tool that presents the facts about HIV/AIDS, how to prevent its contraction and spread, ho...

20. Training Adherence Support Workers
(AIDSLink/Resources)

Adherence support workers (ASWs) are important members of the antiretroviral therapy (ART) clinical team. They help improve patient adherence, knowledge, and understanding; provide education and couns