OBJECTIVE To investigate the effectiveness of educational poster on improving secondary school students' knowledge of emergency management of dental trauma. METHODS A cluster randomised controlled trial was conducted. 16 schools with total 671 secondary students who can read Chinese or English were randomised into intervention (poster, 8 schools, 364 students) and control groups (8 schools, 3...

BACKGROUND: In the era of novel antiviral drugs for treatment of chronic viral hepatitis C (HCV), the diagnosis of liver cirrhosis guides both the choice of the drug regimen, duration of treatment and subsequent follow up. Transient elastography (TE) (fibroscan) is a recent, non invasive and reliable method for the diagnosis of cirrhosis in patients with chronic HCV. We aimed at demonstrating t...

M. Jongmans, P. Hoogerbrugge, L. Hilkens, U. Flucke, I. van der Burgt, K. Noordam, M. Ruiterkam-Versteeg, H. Yntema, W. Nillesen, M. Ligtenberg, A. Geurts-van Kessel, R. Kuiper, N. Hoogerbrugge 1 Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Human Genetics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands 2 Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Paediatric Oncology, Nijmegen, The Netherlands 3 Radboud University N...

P144 Influence of diet on oocyst output and intestinal lesion development in Coccivac®-D vaccinated replacement broiler breeders reared on new and used litter. L. A. Oden*1, D. J. Caldwell1, S. K. Pohl1, A. E. Klein1, S. Young2, C. Broussard3, S. Fitz-Coy3, L. Newmann3, and J. T. Lee1, 1Department of Poultry Science, Agrilife Research, Texas A&M System, College Station, 2Pilgrim’s Pride Corpora...

introduction: diarrheal diseases are a serious health problem and important causes of growth retardation and death in the developing world, especially those of prolonged duration. since diarrhea is constantly found in children with zinc deficiency, very studies supported zinc supplements beneficial on the duration and severity of diarrhea among children. we review the impact of zinc effects on ...

introduction: optimal child development necessitates proper nutrition in childhood. despite of improvements in child nutrition, there are still lots of challenges in proper child nutrition which shows the necessity of using the past experiences more than ever. despite of particular interest of iranians to cardinal humors (temperaments), unfortunately, families and medical staffs are not appropr...

prevention has a main role in reducing the occurrence of corrosive ingestion especially in children, yet this goal is far from being reached in developing countries, where such injuries are largely unreported and their true prevalence simply cannot be extrapolated from random articles or personal experience. because of the accidental nature of the ingestions, the case fatality rate for pediatri...

based on rome iii criteria, functional disorders of gi are listed below:   infant regurgitation: -regurgitation two or more times per day for 3 or more weeks -no retching, hematemesis, aspiration, apnea, ftt, abnormal posturing infant rumination syndrome: -repetitive contraction of abdominal muscle -regurgitation of gastric content in to the mouth and reswallowed cyclic vomiting syndrome: -two ...

introduction: gastrointestinal endoscopy is  as a diagnosis and treatment of gastrointestinal diseases in children. due to severe response and spastic in  the muscles of the digestive tract is created during endoscopy,endoscopy is often face with difficult. the aim of this study is to evaluate peppermint impact in pyloric spasm in children undergo endoscopy.   material and methods: in this clin...

introduction: cleft lip and palate is a congenital anomaly occurring in 3 in 1000 live birth. one the major concern in this patient is about cleft gap and its surgical problems. several surgical and non-surgical procedures have been done to decrease this gap. they aimed to achieve the more esthetic results as well as feeding success. nasoalveolar molding (nam) is a new method for reshaping nasa...