Prevalence of hepatitis A, B, C and human immunodeficiency virus seropositivity among patients with acute icteric hepatitis at the Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi.

Objective: To determine the prevalence of hepatitis A, B, C and HIV seropositivity among patients with acute icteric hepatitis.

Design: Cross-sectional descriptive survey.

Setting: Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi.

Screening for chronic hepatitis B and C virus infections in an urban sexually transmitted disease clinic: rationale for integrating services.

Background And Objectives: Clients attending sexually transmitted disease (STD) clinics are at risk for multiple infections (e.g., STDs, HIV, and infectious viral hepatitis).

Myosin I is associated with zymogen granule membranes in the rat pancreatic acinar cell.

Background & Aims: The mechanisms whereby intracellular messengers mediate zymogen granule transport and exocytosis in the pancreatic acinar cell are not well defined. Electron microscopy has shown a periluminal network of actin in the acinar cell, suggesting a role for actin and myosin in the transport process. The possible involvement of two types of myosin in the secretory process was investigated, and their distribution in acinar cells was determined.

I've been where it's gone, so I know what I got ... An American Fulbright Lecturer in Albania, 1994-1995.

Spending 10 months as a Fulbright Lecturer in Medical Sciences at the University Medical Center, University of Tirana, Albania, gave me a first-hand view of academic medicine in a country merging from more than 45 years of Communist rule that impoverished the country and isolated it from the rest of the world. Even after the fall of Communism, every aspect of medicine in Albania continues to be government controlled. Early specialization is still the rule for academic physicians.