AIM Preterm infants have difficulty oral feeding. We hypothesized that a specific sucking and swallowing exercises vs. no intervention accelerate the attainment of independent oral feeding through a faster maturation of infants' oral feeding skills (OFS). METHODS Very low birthweight infants were randomized to a control, sucking and swallowing groups. Sucking consisted of active sucking on a ...

This paper was presented to the Section of Tropical Medicine, of the 7 CruiseCongress of Pan American Medical Association, whose invitation to be present at the meeting held at Havana, in January 1938, I was unable to accept. The subject was chosen as leprosy is one of the most important medical problems as yet unsolved and I do not believe its eradication to be possible until methods of prophy...

Hookworm infestation will usually present with iron deficiency anemia. In this report we present a case of obscure overt gastrointestinal bleeding occuring from last two years in a young individual, requiring 50 units of blood transfusion. He was diagnosed with hookworm infection on a capsule endoscopy, which demonstrated dancing worms buried in the mucosa of small bowel and were actively sucki...

RATIONALE The etiology of class II division 1 Angle anomaly comprises many entities, including heredity and the vicious habit of sucking the finger. A close connection between the etiology and the clinical features needs to be outlined, in order to have a more appropriate treatment approach. AIM This study aims to find common clinical features for two groups of Class II division 1 etiological...