Rapid urbanisation in Dar es Salaam, the main commercial hub in Tanzania, has resulted in congested health facilities, poor quality care, and unacceptably high facility-based maternal and perinatal mortality. Using a participatory approach, the Dar es Salaam regional government in partnership with a non-governmental organisation, Comprehensive…[Read more]

We retrospectively reviewed and compared the results of corporal plication procedures for the correction of congenital penile curvature (CPC) between pre-pubertal and post-pubertal boys and find whether age matters in the success rates. We reviewed the records of 32 patients with CPC without hypospadias treated by simple plication near the 12…[Read more]

Carpal tunnel release (CTR) surgical costs are minimized when performed in the procedure room (PR) setting, compared with the operating room. However, it remains unclear whether outcomes differ between surgical settings. Our purpose was to compare outcomes at 1 year or greater follow-up after open CTR between patients treated in PR versus…[Read more]

00; low vermillion border

= 0.02; whistling deformity

= 0.00) compared to “typical” outcomes. Difference between professionals, patients and laypeople in rank positioning the photographs was not statistically significant (

= 0.89).

Noses with a smaller nostril and lips containing a whistling deformity were perceived as poorer…[Read more]

05) in the sample. CONCLUSIONS The study provides useful insights into the domains of physical and emotional distress. The findings should be incorporated into personalised treatments aimed at reducing functional disability and improving quality of life in patients with fibromyalgia.OBJECTIVES Takayasu’s arteritis (TAK) is a chronic, large vessel…[Read more]

Members of the genera Proteiniphilum and Petrimonas were speculated to represent indicators reflecting process instability within anaerobic digestion (AD) microbiomes. Therefore, Petrimonas mucosa ING2-E5AT was isolated from a biogas reactor sample and sequenced on the PacBio RSII and Illumina MiSeq sequencers. Phylogenetic classification…[Read more]