The impact of sensitizing 1 year undergraduate medical students to research methodology.

Background: Research is a core essential component of evidence-based medicine. The current study was undertaken to sensitize the undergraduate medical students the concept of biomedical research to sharpen their clinical skills.

Materials And Methods: This educational interventional study was done with a systemic random sample of 120 medical students in a tertiary care hospital.

Declining incidence of osteoporotic hip fracture in Australia.

Unlabelled: Between 1997-1998 and 2006-2007 in Australia, the age-standardised incidence rates of hip fractures declined by 20 and 13 %, in females and males, respectively. Although this may be related to the rollout of public health campaigns and strategies addressing osteoporosis, absolute numbers of hip fractures continued to increase.

Background: Previous reports described an increasing trend in osteoporotic hip fracture incidence in Australia in the 1980s with a stabilisation over the 1990s.

Variation in rates of hip and knee joint replacement in Australia based on socio-economic status, geographical locality, birthplace and indigenous status.

Background: Our understanding of the incidence of joint replacement across different subgroups of the Australian population is limited. This study investigated whether rates of hip and knee joint replacement vary according to socio-economic status, geographical locality, birthplace and indigenous status.

Methods: Data from the National Hospital Morbidity Database were obtained.

Insight into the early spread of chloroquine-resistant Plasmodium falciparum infections in Papua New Guinea.

The first report of Plasmodium falciparum chloroquine (CQ) resistance (CQR) in Papua New Guinea (PNG) appeared in 1974. Although the current prevalence of CQR-associated parasite gene polymorphisms has been documented for some regions, the spatial and temporal relationships that characterize CQ-resistant parasites in PNG are unknown. Insight into the evolution of CQ-resistant parasites could be provided by evaluating genetic markers in parasite populations.

Genetic studies of human apolipoproteins: XII. Population genetics of apolipoproteins in Papua New Guinea.

The gene products of the apolipoprotein A-I, A-II, A-IV, C-II, C-III, D, E and H loci have been screened by isoelectric focusing followed by immunoblotting from two Papua New Guinean populations, the Huli and the Pawaia. Only APO E and APO H revealed common polymorphisms. A putative unique A-IV variant has been identified, but due to the lack of family data it is not characterized further.