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Management of severe malnutrition in Africa
A PhD thesis and a major piece of work that contributed to the amendments in the WHO (1999) protocol on SAM to pay attention to the cri...
Antioxidant capacity of breast-milk taken by patients with kwashiorkor
An MSc thesis which examined breast milk of control and mothers of malnourished children in DRC and found that all the mothers had low ...
Water requirements of malnourished children in extreme hot and dry environments
An MSc thesis studying water turnover in SAM children in Tchad which followed the indentification of many children with hypernatraemic ...
Nutritional status and survival in the siege of Turmanburg-Liberia
An MSc thesis reporting an experience in Liberia where many hundreds of SAM patients were treated only during the day with a very low m...
Breastfeeding lowers the frequency and duration of acute respiratory infection and diarrhea in infants under six months of age
Write up of research study in the Journal of Nutrition. Reference: Lopez Alarcon M, Villalpando S, Fajardo A. J Nutr 1997 Mar; 127(3):4...
Effect of not breastfeeding on the risk of diarrheal and respiratory mortality in children under 2 years of age in Metro Cebu, Philippines.
Yoon PW, Black RE, Moulton LH, Becker S. Am J Epidemiol 1996. 143(11):1142-1148 The effects of not breastfeeding on mortality due to d...
Oxytocin and prolactin levels in breast-feeding women
Uvnas-Moberg K, Widstrom AM, Werner S, Matthiesen AS, Winberg J. Acta Obstetrica et Gynecologica Scandinavica 1990; 69, 301-306. Breas...
Stress-Induced Cessation of Lactation
Ruvalcaba RH. West J. Med 1987;146:228-230. Paper shares the case studies of two women following the Mexico earthquake in 1985. Both h...