16 | VOLUME 3 • ISSUE 1 www.hospitalpediatrics.org abstract BACKGROUND: It has become common practice to empirically treat infants and children who have suspected gastroesophageal refl ux disease by using acid-suppressive medications. However, evidence to support the effectiveness of these medications in the pediatric population is limited. With multiple studies in adult patients indicating inc...

This article reports two cases of scrotum Paget's disease in two biological brothers who were admitted and treated in our hospital in 2013. They are very rare cases. The present article discusses the potential management of Paget's disease and the importance of long-term follow-up.

The rpoS gene of Serratia entomophila BC4B was cloned and used to create rpoS-mutant strain BC4BRS. Larvae of the New Zealand grass grub Costelytra zealandica infected with BC4BRS became amber colored but continued to feed, albeit to a lesser extent than infected larvae. Subsequently, we found that expression of the antifeeding gene anfA1 in trans was substantially reduced in BC4BRS relative to...

We describe fluid attenuated inversion recovery sequence MRI and proton MR spectroscopy appearances of the brain in a 7-year old Saudi boy who presented with the clinical features of Hallervorden-Spatz disease to King Fahad National Guard Hospital, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

background: paget's disease is a focal bone disorder manifested as bone overgrowth and disrupted bone integrity as a result of accelerated bone remodelling rate. rarely, paget's disease of the base of the skull results in hydrocephalic dementia, and the triad of normal pressure hydrocephalus syndrome is a much more scarce entity. case report: herein, we report an elderly woman who presented in ...