1. Good for journal club
(Comments)

...or journal club. Simple, with a practical application. Could also be duplicated fairly easily in an African hospital....

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

Boys wait in line for food at one of the refugee camps This past Friday, Emily and I had the opportunity to go on an outreach here in Jos with our neighbor Dr. Don Sampson (an American pedia

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

We now have four patients in the hospital who have a condition called enterocutaneous fistula. They all had surgery at other hospitals for various problems but developed a leak in their intestines so

4. Encouraging news on intermittent preventive therapy in infancy (IPTi) for malaria
(Journal Club/Malaria)

...emonstrated a 30% protective efficacy against clinical malaria, a 24% protective efficacy against all-cause hospital admissions, a 37% protective efficacy against malaria-related hospital admissions, ...

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

Bottom line: In this government hospital in Guinea-Bissau, mortality from childhood was reduced by 50% in an intervention that monitored and supervised staff supervision to guidelines, and also provid

6. 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

7. Bacteremia in hospitalized patients in the Gambia
(Journal Club/Infectious Diseases)

This descriptive study looked at patients admitted to the Medical Research Council hospital in the Gambia with a possible diagnosis of sepsis/bacteremia. About 10% of 871 patients had a positive blood

8. Putting Typhoid Vaccination on the Global Health Agenda (NEJM)
(Journal Club/Infectious Diseases)

Enteric fever or typhoid cases have increased significantly at our hospital in the past 2 years, both in children and adults, with many cases  of intestinal perforation and not a few deaths. This

9. Community Eye Health Journal
(News/Latest)

... the Internet as well as on the TALC CDs. If you are involved in primary care, healthcare planning, general hospital, or eye care, you should check the site....

10. Shoeboxes
(Blog/Blog)

... of the millions of children who don't even have the basics, and who need other measures more urgently than hospitals and doctors. I am conducting research for our church which is putting together 80...

11. Dr. Odumu Outreach Report
(News/News at Evangel)

...es from; Oculus Pharmacy; Dr. Blyth; Dr. Truxton; Jean Garland; Sister Kate Ejembi; the Odumus; and Evangel Hospital. The medicines we did not use were donated to the government village clinic staff...

12. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation -- Chest-compressions only preferred (Goodbye, mouth-to-mouth)
(Journal Club/Family practice)

...citation by bystanders is the preferable approach to resuscitation for adult patients with witnessed out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, especially those with apnoea, shockable rhythm, or short periods of...

13. Short-term mortality and implementation of ART for critically ill HIV-infected children (S Africa)
(Journal Club/HIV)

Methods: "Prospective observational study conducted in a paediatric teaching hospital in Cape Town, South Africa. All children admitted to the paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) with suspected

14. An updated look at severe malnutrition in Africa -- are current guidelines feasible?
(Journal Club/Public Health)

...ng with children in Africa. WHO guidelines for severe malnutrition: are they feasible in rural African hospitals? Archives of Disease in Childhood 2007;92:198-204. (free via Hinari) Commenta...

15. Neonatal tetanus in Nigeria: does it still pose a major threat to neonatal survival?
(Journal Club/Public Health)

...atal tetanus is still a major threat in Nigeria is not answered. Certainly it has become less common at our hospital in Jos, where we admit only 3-4 cases yearly. Neonatal tetanus in Nigeria: doe...

16. Highly resistant TB common in rural South African TB/HIV patients
(Journal Club/TB)

...ients with XDR tuberculosis had never been previously treated for tuberculosis; 67% (28 of 42) had a recent hospital admission. All 44 patients with XDR tuberculosis who were tested for HIV were co-in...

17. Malaria chemoprophylaxis in sickle cell disease -- Cochrane summary
(Journal Club/Pediatrics)

...lusion criteria. The results favored the use of malaria prophylaxis, with reduced frequency of pain crises, hospital admissions, and blood transfusions. The drugs used for prophylaxis are not stated i...

18. Evangel registrar marries American "missionary kid"
(News/News at Evangel)

Family practice resident Dr. David Dennis Nege married Saralynn Blyth on 18 November at the Kent Academy chapel in Miango. Saralynn is the daughter of Evangel pediatric consultant Dr. Mike Blyth and h

19. Medical director gives presentation at international conference
(News/News at Evangel)

Dr. Sunday Lengman, medical director of Evangel Hospital, has just returned from the 2006 World Congress of the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics, held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. A

20. Evangel doctor wins regional award
(News/News at Evangel)

Dr. Gbenga Ogunfowokan, a family physician at Evangel Hospital, received an award last week at the meeting of the West Africa College of Physicians Faculty of Fmaily Medicine. Dr. "Oguns", w