Travel in pregnancy.
Women’s Health Medicine March 2005 2 (2) 6-7
Bite prevention key in malaria.
Independent Nurse 21 Mar 2005 pp 16-17
Malaria prophylaxis.
Independent Nurse 1 Mar 2005
Safe adventures with children.
British Travel Health Assoc. Journal 2004 5 17-19
Advice for new mothers.
Archives of Disease in Childhood 2004 89 (10) 983; a snippet that takes a swipe at doctors who don’t or can’t listen to vulnerable new mothers. See www.adc.bmj.com/cgi/reprint for a downloadable PDF file
The pregnant traveller.
British Health Assoc. Journal 2002 pp 3-6
Advising pregnant women about travelling overseas.
Pulse 27th May 2002, pp 50-4
How to repel the little biters.
Chemist & Druggist April 28 2001 pp 13-14
Persistent lymphadenopathy after tick bites in Nepal.
British Travel Health Association Journal 2001 II pp 56-8
Advising travelling families.
Travel Medicine International 2000 18 (3) 82-6
Health promotion in travellers.
Update 18th May 2000 pp 721-5
From the other side: anxieties and misconceptions amongst expatriates in Nepal.
Paper presented at the British Travel Health Association Scientific Conference 20th February 1999
Management of Emergencies in Family Planning Services in Nepal: a reference manual.
JHPIEGO Baltimore/HM Government of Nepal, 1999; 111pp
Illness in expatriate families in Kathmandu, Nepal.
Travel Medicine International 1997 15 150-155
Hazards of trekking in Nepal.
Travel Medicine International 1997 15 82-87
Preventing Disease: a manual of ways to improve health in Nepali villages.
NEWAH/WaterAid 1996 99pp; adapted for use in Bangladesh in 1997 and South India in 1998.
Treating anaemia.
Child Health Dialogue 1996 3&4 p2; a political piece about the way inappropriately expensive pharmaceuticals are marketed in Pakistan
Toward more effective health education in AusAID projects: an example from Lombok, Indonesia. in Health and development in south east Asia pp.191-204, eds. Paul Cohen and John Purcal; Australian Development Studies Network (Canberra) 1995
Is head flattening in infancy a good thing?
Archives of Disease in Childhood 1994 70 72; a snippet about the effect of swaddling on infant skull shape in Pakistan
Sustainable use of soap.
Dialogue on Diarrhoea (quarterly international health education newsletter with a circulation of 300,000 in 10 languages) 54 September-November 1993; available on-line at www.rehydrate.org
Sustained improvements in hygiene behaviour amongst village women in Lombok, Indonesia.
Transactions of the Royal Society Tropical Medicine & Hygiene1993 87 615-616; a pleasing piece of follow up work that suggested that our health education programme still had significant impact two years on; the simplicity of the message was one reason for the success, the other was the ‘cascading’ of information from mother to mother; see the Dialogue on Diarrhoea write-up above.
Hand-washing reduces diarrhoea episodes: a study in Lombok, Indonesia.
Transactions of the Royal Society Tropical Medicine & Hygiene1991 85 819-821; showed how carefully researched and targeted health education can have a significant impact and improve the lives of the rural poor
Perforated duodenal ulcer: an unusual complication of gastroenteritis.
Archives of Disease in Childhood 1991 65 990-991; describes one unexpected outcome of physical stress in a child
An unusual cause of cyanosis.
Journal Paediatrics & Child Health 1991 27 (1) 65-66
Heights and weights of Children in Ladakh, N. India.
Journal of Tropical Pediatrics 1990 36 271-272; reporting a study of parasite burdens in children living in remote mountain villages
Riboflavin deficiency in late pregnancy: a problem in South Asia too?
Transactions of the Royal Society Tropical Medicine & Hygiene 1988 82 656
Wells worms and water in western Madagascar.
Journal of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene1988 91 255-264; a study that also involved treating the children two entire schools for worms and schistosomiasis
Malaria in cave-roosting Peruvian bats.
Cave Science 1988 15 (2) 85
A study of Bilharzia and intestinal worms in children from Morondava, western Madagascar. Archives Institut Pasteur de Madagascar 1987 52 105-116
The Scorpion Story.
British Medical Journal 1987 295 1642-4; an account of being stung and how the non-medics of the expedition thought they were losing their doctor
Hair analysis and the assessment of marginal malnutrition in children from Little Tibet. Transactions of the Royal Society Tropical Medicine & Hygiene 1986 80 168-9
Can Encephalitozoon cuniculi cross the placenta?
Research in Veterinary Science 1986 40 138
Diagnosis of encephalitozoonosis in man by serological tests.
British Medical Journal 1984 288 1164
The biology of Encephalitozoon cuniculi.
Medical Science 1979 57 84-101
Encephalitozoon cuniculi in wild European rabbits and a fox. Research in Veterinary Science 1979 26 114
Dr Tony White ran an important study on the effects of altitude on the ability to think. He ran this during a Southampton University expedition to the Peruvian Andes that I led. He showed how much altitude compromises the ability to make rational choices and take decisions but how acetazolamide is protective.
White, A.J. Cognitive impairment of AMS and acetazolamide.
Aviation, Space & Environmental Medicine. 1984 5 598-603.
Tony is sadly missed: he was killed by a car while cycling to work. |