A cross-sectional pilot study assessing needs and attitudes to implementation of Information and Communication Technology for rational use of medicines among healthcare staff in rural Tanzania.

Background: In resource-poor countries access to essential medicines, suboptimal prescribing and use of medicines are major problems. Health workers lack updated medical information and treatment support. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) could help tackle this.

Effects of management, feeding, and treatment on clinical and biochemical variables in cattle with displaced abomasum.

Objective: To determine effects of management, feeding, and treatment on clinical and biochemical variables in cows with displaced abomasum (DA).

Animals: 374 cows that received 470 treatments for DA.

Procedure: Blood and milk samples were obtained from 139 affected cows for analysis; for all cows, clinical data, management, feeding, and treatments were evaluated.

The influence of parenterally administered alpha-tocopheryl acetate to sows on the vitamin E status of the sows and suckling piglets and piglets after weaning.

The main aim of the study was to test if parenteral administration of alpha-tocopheryl acetate twice before farrowing and weaning could increase the vitamin E status of the newborn piglets and piglets after weaning. In Trial I eight sows were given 1.5 g alpha-tocopheryl acetate intramuscularly 7 and 2 days before farrowing.

The influence of dietary selenium as selenium yeast or sodium selenite on the concentration of selenium in the milk of Suckler cows and on the selenium status of their calves.

The aim of this trial was to determine whether the selenium status of suckling calves could be improved by supplementing their dams' diet with organic Se instead of sodium selenite. A herd of 103 Hereford cows, which were on grass paddocks all year round, was divided into two groups. Both groups had free access to a mineral supplement that contained 30 mg of Se/kg; for one group the source of the Se was a Se yeast product, and for the other group the source was sodium selenite.

Effect of selenate as a feed supplement to dairy cows in comparison to selenite and selenium yeast.

The main aim of this trial was to define the possible differences between selenite and selenate in their ability to increase the selenium (Se) concentration of milk, in comparison with organic Se. Dairy cows (n = 42) were fed a basal diet containing .10 to .