Ebola and community health worker services in Kenema District, Sierra Leone: please mind the gap!

All community health workers (CHWs) in rural Kenema District, Sierra Leone. CHW programmes provide basic health services to fill gaps in human health resources. We compared trends in the reporting and management of childhood malaria, diarrhoea and pneumonia by CHWs before, during and after the Ebola outbreak (2014-2016).

Bioelectrographic testing of mineral samples: a comparison of techniques.

Objectives: This study was initiated to determine the suitability of differing techniques to record optical properties of gemstones under electromagnetic stimulation. Such properties are of interest due to the historical use of gemstones in folkloric remedies, specifically as agents for concentrating, focusing, or otherwise conducting energy flows in the human body.

Design: The techniques researched produce a localized corona discharge around the tested material.