Abstract
It is a pleasure to welcome you to this first issue of African Health Sciences for 2014. We bring you papers on non-communicable diseases, infections, herbal medicine, reproductive health and medical education. The paper by Adisa and Fakeye1, introduces us to an interesting component of patient management in type 2 diabetes, that is, adherence to the medication. More than 75% of the patients were not aware of the indication for the prescribed medicine. Possible barriers to non-adherence included lack of knowledge, poor attitude, high cost, confusing doze of medicine, and premature discontinuation due to side effects. Saudi authors have studied the ‘impact of mild versus moderate intensity aerobic walking exercise training on markers of bone metabolism and hand grip strength in moderate hemophilia patients’.2 On the other hand, Ugandan authors3 describe histopathological types of cancer of the esophagus , while Chinese authors4 report on the anti-human gastric cancer effect of astragalosides.
Highlights
It is a pleasure to welcome you to this first issue of African Health Sciences for 2014
Cameroonian workers report on ‘dentofacial injuries in commercial motorcycle accidents’ and cost implication of care,[11] while Feng describes the relationship between the morphology of A-1 segment of anterior cerebral artery and anterior communicating artery aneurysms.[12]
We conclude this section with a seminal paper by Talay[14] on the value of mean platelet volume in the diagnosis of acute pulmonary embolism
Summary
It is a pleasure to welcome you to this first issue of African Health Sciences for 2014. Chinese workers studied the quality of life in rectal cancer patients with colostomy.[5] Keeping with Chinese scientists, Chao Ou et al[6] report the effect of biloba extract on Cox-2 and GST-Pi in rats with hepatocellular carcinoma risk.
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