COVID-19 concerns among caregivers and vitamin A supplementation coverage among children aged 6-59 months in four countries in Western sub-Saharan Africa.

Objective: To assess child vitamin A supplementation (VAS) coverage in 2019 and 2020 and explore key factors, including COVID-19 concerns, that influenced VAS status in four sub-Saharan African countries.

Design: Data from eight representative household surveys were used to assess VAS coverage. Multivariable logistic regression models examined the effect of rural/urban residence, child sex and age, caregiver education, COVID-19 concern and household wealth on VAS status.

The Window Test: A Simple Bedside Method to Detect Radial Deviation of the Wrist Commonly Seen in Posterior Interosseous Nerve Palsy.

Background: Posterior interosseous nerve palsy (PINP) is a disorder caused by damage to the posterior interosseous nerve, resulting in weak extension of the wrist and fingers as well as radial deviation of the wrist.

Methods: This study analyzed a new type of evaluation for PINP in hopes of increasing ease of diagnosis and earlier detection of the disorder. The window test is performed by the examiner laying hands on the ulnar aspect of the patient's pronated forearm while the patient tries to extend the wrist.

Between the city and the farm: food environments in artisanal mining communities in Upper Guinea.

Objective: Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) is a widespread livelihood in low- and middle-income countries; however, many in ASM communities face high levels of poverty and malnutrition. The food environments in ASM communities have non-agricultural rural characteristics that differ from those in urban and agricultural rural areas examined in much existing food environment literature.

Design: We examine these complex external and personal food environments in ASM communities via a study using qualitative and quantitative methods.