The World Health Organisation (WHO) recommends that all low-birthweight infants receive kangaroo mother care (KMC) after stabilisation. However, the effect of immediate kangaroo mother care intervention was elusive. The WHO…
The stethoscope is an instrument used to listen and amplify the sounds produced by the heart, lungs, and other internal organs. As medics, we must have used the stethoscope on…
Annually, 218 per 1000 women conceive in sub-Saharan Africa: it implies that most of these women undergo labour at some point and experience the wrath that labour pains inflict on…
Calcium based antacids like calcium lactate are invaluable medications in pregnancy to the extent that almost no pregnant mother ever completes the pregnancy period without having a complaint that will…
Rho (D) Immune Globulin (RhoGAM) is a biologic antibody derived from human plasma1. It is a medication that targets the rhesus D antigen found on the surfaces of red blood…
The health care systems in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) still face challenges in adopting the Partograph as the gold standard monitoring tool for expectant mothers in active labour(1). In…
Thomas Easterling et al. conducted an open-label, randomized controlled trial to assess the efficacy and safety of three oral antihypertensives in treating severe hypertension in pregnancy in a low-resource setting…
Extensive overlap exists in the histologic appearance of partial and complete moles that even experienced pathologists can have difficulty differentiating them. More issues arise when the tissues under analysis are…
Deep in the remote villages of Uganda and a few suburban areas, a miscarriage is almost always attributed to a bad omen. I have encountered a few women who reported…
Medicine is an ever-changing discipline when it comes to practice. Experts continuously update the practice recommendations as new evidence emerges. Management of ectopic pregnancy is no exception. Medical (methotrexate) or…