Introduction: Retinoblastoma (Rb) is the most common intraocular and life threatening eye cancer that affects mainly children under the age of five years. In developing countries including Tanzania, 50-70% of affected ...

Background: Disrespect and Abuse (D&A) in delivering women is a global problem in many low and high income countries though not well documented. Apart from Cost and Distance, recently women’s experience of disrespectful ...

Background: Open spina bifida is associated with bacterial infection including: meningitis, and severe sepsis. Despite empirical initiation of first or second line antibiotics to most neonates on admission sepsis is still ...

Background: Chest injuries prevails about 1/5 th of all trauma patients. The magnitude varies from different parts of the world because of differences in infrastructure, social economic activities, wars and crimes. ...

Background: Globally, approximately one million under-five children die each year due to prematurity, accounting for 35% of all neonatal deaths a year. Anaemia is among the complications of prematurity and it has a ...

Background: Environmental contamination with MRSA in routine medical care settings poses an increased risk of health care associated infections through cross- transmission. The cross-transmission is generally associated ...

Introduction: Emergency care for trauma patients is an important component of health care systems especially in low and middle income countries (LMIC), this is due to fact that these countries are facing huge trauma ...

Introduction: An estimation of about 1.4 billion people are suffering from allergic rhinitis worldwide. Allergic rhinitis (AR) is a common debilitating disorder that can adversely affect the quality of life and the ...

Background: Cardiac implantable electronic device is a term that encompasses pacemakers, implantable cardioverter defibrillators and cardiac resynchronization therapy. These lifelong devices are established treatments ...

Introduction: Hearing loss is one among the major abnormalities present at birth. If undetected will impair speech, language and cognitive development. The critical period for language and speech development is generally ...