September 2013

Strategies for achieving the fourth and fifth millenium development goals in Nigeria: Nursing perspective

Nigeria as a signatory to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) declaration has been making concerted effort to actualize these human development goals. She has put some strategies in place to specifically address the issue of health-related MDGs, especially MDGs 4 and 5. This paper therefore, reviewed some of the strategies put in place in order to achieve the fourth and fifth MDGs in Nigeria.   Key...

Author(s): Akinwaare Margaret Omowaleola

September 2013

Symphysis-fundal height at term: A new birth weight predictive equation

There is clinical utility in having a simple and low-cost method of predicting birth weight. To identify abnormal fetal growth, in fact, can reduce the risk of adverse perinatal outcomes. A longitudinal observational cohort study, including 1034 low-risk singleton pregnancies at term, was performed at the Division of Prenatal Medicine, St. Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, University of Bologna, Bologna (Italy) to derive a...

Author(s): Alessandra Curti, Margherita Zanello, Silvia Battistini, Diana Cabassi, Gabriella Cangini, Natalia Dini, Cristina Giovannini, Vincenza Leccese, Stefania Piersimoni, Nadia Rimondi and Antonio Farina