BACKGROUND Preventive and curative medical interventions can reduce child mortality. It is important to assess whether there is gender bias in access to these interventions, which can lead to preferential treatment of children of a given sex. METHODS Data from Demographic and Health Surveys carried out in 57 low- and middle-income countries were used. The outcome variable was a composite care...

2 Year old girl presented with fever and cough for 4 months. Neurological examination revealed right sided hemiplegia. Contrast enhanced computed tomography of brain showed multiple hypodense ring enhancing lesions. Pus on aspiration of intracranial abscess showed positive polymerase chain reaction for Mycobacterium tuberculosis. A possibility of tuberculosis though not commonly recognised may ...

Rural health is never far from political controversy. Often an issue makes the headlines and there are feverish announcements and great promises about taking definitive action. Then a little time passes and the politicians involved come to the realisation that there is no ‘quick fix’ or ‘single fix’ for what are complex issues, and the will to maintain the passion for the issue fades as the sto...

Author details Centro de Investigación en Sistemas de Salud, National Institute of Public Health, Cuernavaca, México. National Institute of Health, Bogotá, D.C., Colombia. School of Public Health, University of Ghana, Cuernavaca, México. Independent consultant, Maputo, Mozambique. Center for Health Policy, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Witwatersrand, Republic of Sout...

This paper examines maternal and child health in the Nairobi slums using information on 1219 births which occurred in the past three years before the Nairobi Cross-sectional Slum Survey (NCSS) of 2000. The specific objectives are to compare maternal and child health indicators in the Nairobi slums with the rest of the Kenyan population, and to identify socio-economic and demographic factors ass...

Dengue fever is a common viral illness seen worldwide with higher incidence in tropical regions. The may present as mild nonspecific symptoms to life-threatening severe dengue. Severe dengue usually secondary infection which uncommon during infancy. As the virus classically not known be neurotropic virus, neurological manifestations are atypical presentations of child fever, seizures, altered m...

UNLABELLED  Introducción and aim. To investigate and identify the risk factors associated with early infection following a transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS)procedure in perioperative period. MATERIAL AND METHODS The interventional radiology database at the West China Hospital in Sichuan, China was reviewed to identify all patients that underwent a TIPS procedure between Jan...

A 6-year-old girl with Sickle-cell disease was hospitalized because of fever and arthralgia. During hospitalization she developed a splenic sequestration with the need of three successive red packed-cell transfusions. Microbiological investigations revealed positive HPVB19 IgM and IgG and HPVB19 DNA in blood. Given the diagnosis of HPVB19 infection and persistent fever, she received intravenous...

Methods MVK gene was analyzed in 950 consecutive patients with periodic fever. 40 MKD patients were identified. Spontaneous disease course was classified as follows: i) resolution (no episodes in the last 6 months), ii) improvement (reduction of more then 30% of fever episodes) iii) stationary iv) worsening (increase frequency of fever episodes or appearance of new major clinical manifestation)...

Introduction Ectodermal dysplasia (ED) is a clinically heterogeneous condition characterized by the abnormal development of two or more ectoderm-derived structures. Mutations in ED1 gene, (Xq12-13.1), are the most frequent cause. X-linked Hypohidrotic Ectodermal Dysplasia (XL-HED) is characterized by association of sparse hair, abnormal or missing teeth and variable inability to sweat that may ...