Ghana Medical Journal

Past Issue - June 2016,Vol. 50 No. 2

EDITORIAL COMMENTARY

Pain services and prescription of opioid drugs in Ghana

Author(s) Frank K Boni and Barima A. Afrane • Full article

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

Opioid prescribing habits of physicians in Kwara State, Nigeria

Author(s) Zakari A. Suleiman, Kolawole W. Wahab and Israel K. Kolawole • Full article

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Zimbabwe

Author(s) Kathrine Mauchaza1, Farai D Madzimbamuto and Seymour Waner • Full article

Outcome of pregnancy in patients with systemic lupus erythematosis at Korle-bu Teaching Hospital

Author(s) Ida Dzifa Dey, Jerry Coleman, Harriet Kwarko and Michael Mate-Kole • Full article

Relationship between serum total magnesium and serum potassium in emergency surgical patients in a tertiary hospital in Ghana

Author(s) Robert Djagbletey, Brenda Phillips, Frank Boni, Christian Owoo, Ebenezer Owusu-Darkwa, Papa K. G. deGraft-Johnson and Alfred E. Yawson • Full article

Perception and risk factors for cervical cancer among women in northern Ghana

Author(s) Constance A. Opoku, Edmund Nii Laryea Browne, Kathryn Spangenberg, Cheryl Moyer, David Kolbilla and Katherine J. Gold • Full article

Do diabetes-specialty clinics differ in management approach and outcome? A cross-sectional assessment of ambulatory type 2 diabetes patients in two teaching hospitals in Nigeria

Author(s) Rasaq Adisa and Titilayo O. Fakeye • Full article

Secondary analysis of snake bite data in the Western Region of Ghana: 2006-2010

Author(s) Ebenezer K. Mensah, Kwaku Karikari, Moses Aikins, Linda Vanotoo, Samuel Sackey, Chima Ohuabunwo, Fred Wurapa, Tweneboah K. Sifah and Edwin Afari • Full article

SPECIAL ARTICLE

Irrational use of antibiotics and the risk of diabetes in Ghana

Author(s) Kwesi B. Mensah and Charles Ansah • Full article

CASE REPORTS

Burst abdomen in pregnancy: A proposed management algorithm

Author(s) Amalachukwu M. Okpala, Samuel Debrah and Mohammed Mouhajer • Full article