A good egg: An evaluation of a social and behavior change communication campaign to increase egg consumption among children in Rwanda.

Childhood malnutrition, which is endemic in rural areas of low-income countries, leads to a host of deleterious outcomes such as poor cognitive development, low educational attainment and lower lifetime wages. Promoting the consumption of eggs among young children has emerged as a promising strategy to combat childhood malnutrition, though pathways to scale remain unclear. In this paper, we evaluate the impact of a social and behaviour change communication (SBCC) campaign combined with a program in which rural families purchased chickens on credit (poultry + SBCC; n = 769) relative to an arm in which families only received the poultry intervention (poultry only; n = 750), using a difference-in-difference estimation strategy with propensity score matching.

Uncommon Incidental Diagnosis of Lipomatous Hypertrophy of the Interatrial Septum.

Lipomatous hypertrophy of the interatrial septum (LHIS) is a benign non-neoplastic cardiac lesion that previously has not been readily described, but with the increasing usage of computed tomography and echocardiography, this is now becoming a more well-characterized incidental finding. This case highlights an incidental finding of LHIS while a patient was undergoing treatment for a routine gastrointestinal bleed.

Factors associated with nutrition intervention adherence: Evidence from a cluster-randomised controlled trial in Kenya.

Nutrition experts point to the importance of a multipronged approach to address high stunting rates in rural areas. This can include nutrition-specific and -sensitive interventions, such as the provision of micronutrient powder, eggs, and chlorine, and nutrition training to improve feeding practices. In 2018, an agricultural nongovernmental organisation initiated a multipronged approach as part of a randomised trial.

Voltage-induced Ca release by ryanodine receptors causes neuropeptide secretion from nerve terminals.

Depolarisation-secretion coupling is assumed to be dependent only on extracellular calcium ([Ca ] ). Ryanodine receptor (RyR)-sensitive stores in hypothalamic neurohypophysial system (HNS) terminals produce sparks of intracellular calcium ([Ca ] ) that are voltage-dependent. We hypothesised that voltage-elicited increases in intraterminal calcium are crucial for neuropeptide secretion from presynaptic terminals, whether from influx through voltage-gated calcium channels and/or from such voltage-sensitive ryanodine-mediated calcium stores.