A previously healthy 4-year-old girl presented with a 2-day history of severe nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. Her symptoms began with diffuse abdominal pain followed by alternating episodes of vomiting and nonbloody diarrhea. There were no reports of sick contacts, recent travel, camping, or unusual food or water consumption. On the first day of symptoms, her primary care physician diagnosed vi...

Two unrelated Bangladeshi women, a 61-year-old with chronic diarrhea, lower abdominal pain, poor appetite, and weight loss for two years with normal physical exam and unremarkable laboratory tests; and a 58-year-old with epigastric pain, bloating, poor appetite, weight loss for three months, and iron-defi ciency anemia, presented for colonoscopy. Colonoscopy revealed two white-colored worms in ...

Chronic diarrhea, defined as two or more loose or watery stools per day for at least 1 month is common in patients with AIDS. It’s a causal relationship between the immunosuppression and the diarrhea in these patients. We evaluated the most common causes of diarrhea in patients with AIDS. 32 consecutive patients with AIDS were submitted with chronic diarrhea (19 males, 13 females), mean age 20....

Stool energy losses and the sources of energy within the stool were determined in 20 healthy controls and 20 patients with cystic fibrosis while on their habitual pancreatic enzyme replacement treatment. Stool energy losses were equivalent to 3.5% of gross energy intake in healthy children (range 1.3-5.8%). Despite a comparable gross energy intake, stool energy losses were three times greater i...

Introduction: Helicobacter pylori infection has various clinical features. One of the most common presentations of this infection is upper abdominal pain. Complications such as gastritis, gastric ulcer, gastric carcinoma and MALT lymphoma mandate early diagnosis of H.P infection by a low cost and non invasive manner. The aim of this study was to evaluate the diagnostic role of H.P stool antige...

The Math Educational Resources (MER) wiki is an open online learning resource hosted at The University of British Columbia (UBC), aimed at providing math education resources for students and instructors at UBC. In this paper, we will discuss the motivation for creating this resource on the MediaWiki platform, key features of our implementation that support student learning (including the evolut...

Online environments are regarded as well constructed to support collaborative and social learning. This research investigates small group collaboration and learning in the context of online exams. Incorporating constructivism and collaborative learning theories, the online Collaborative Exam features students’ active participation in various phases of the exam process through small group activi...

Family Expectations is one of eight program sites participating in the Building Strong Families (BSF) evaluation. BSF is being conducted by Mathematica Policy Research and its partners under contract to the Any views expressed in this report are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the reviewers, Public Strategies, or the Administration for Children and Families.