Snakebite envenoming is a neglected tropical disease that kills> 100,000 people and maims>
400,000 people every year. Impoverished populations living in the rural tropics are …

Snake bite is a common and frequently devastating environmental and occupational disease,
especially in rural areas of tropical developing countries. Its public health importance has …

Background India has long been thought to have more snakebites than any other country.
However, inadequate hospital-based reporting has resulted in estimates of total annual …

Envenoming resulting from snake bites is an important public health hazard in many regions
of the world, yet public health authorities have given little attention to the problem.

The findings of a 2nd informal technical meeting on severe and complicated malaria,
sponsored by the WHO, and held in March 1988, are presented. The aspects covered include: …

High-dose dexamethasone was compared with placebo in a double-blind trial involving 100
comatose patients with strictly defined cerebral malaria. The two treatment groups, whose …

We studied the occurrence, clinical manifestations, and mechanism of hypoglycemia in patients
with falciparum malaria in eastern Thailand. Hypoglycemia, which was often severe and …

The Oxford Textbook of Medicine provides all that any doctor needs to know to practice top-level
internal medicine. It gives compreensive coverage of the epidemiology, aetiology, and …

The publication of this classic textbook as an International Student Edition (appropriately
priced) will make it accessible to a much wider audience, not only the students it is presumably …

Clinicians have for a long time witnessed the tragedy of injury, disability, and death from
snake bite that is a daily occurrence in many parts of Africa, Asia, and Latin America. To many …