Background: Feeding intolerance is a common complication in preterm neonates and is responsible for prolonged hospitalization. This study aimed at assessing the effects of high-dose oral erythromycin on feeding intolerance in preterm infants.    Methods: A randomized, double blinded, placebo-controlled trial was performed during 2014 and 2015 (Tehran-Iran). Preterm neonates aged >14 ...

Introduction: The incidence of malnutrition in hospitalized patients is reported to be high. In particular, patients with esophageal cancer are prone to malnutrition, due to preoperative digestive system dysfunctions and short-term non-oral feeding postoperatively. Selection of an appropriate method for feeding in the postoperative period is important in these patients.   Materials and Methods:...

This study was carried out to investigate the effects of starvation and feeding regimes on growth performance, haematological and biochemical parameters of blood and body composition of Caspian brown trout parr. For this purpose, 900 fish (average weight: 12.5±1 g) were stocked in 300-l tanks (18 tanks at a stocking rate of 50 fish in each tank) using an open system. Six experimental groups com...

Background and purpose: Inappropriate complementary feeding practices are one of the causes of malnutrition worldwide. This study was aimed to determine the complementary feeding practices according to World Health Organization recommendation in Sari, Iran. Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study on complementary feeding practices assayed the different aspect of infant feeding based o...

Objective Exclusive breastfeeding is safe and beneficial for healthy infants; it is the optimal feeding method during the first 6 months of life. Infants should be complementary fed in conjunction with breastfeeding until 12 months of age or longer. The aim of the present study was to analyse the duration of breastfeeding through 12 months of age. Methods Participants were 1679 women from 42 ra...

breast-milk is the best food for infants and protects them from many diseases.in order to investigate the quality of breast-feeding promotion programms a survey was performed with the help of a questionnaire prepared by UNICEF ,titled as self assessment of maternity hospitals and other hospitals.the findings are as follow:none of the hospitals had a specific procedure to evaluate the efforts fo...

tion in 500 general practices in England and Wales. The questionnaire is short-one side of A4 with 10 questions-and takes approximately two minutes to complete. The introductory letter, signed by the researchers, was addressed to the practice manager requesting him or her to give it to the general practitioner most involved in cervical smear testing. For the follow up of non-respondents, the pr...

Checkpointing and logging are widely used techniques to provide fault tolerance for the distributed systems. However, logging imposes too much overhead on the processing to be a practi-val solution. In this paper, we propose a low-overhead logging scheme for the distributed shared memory system based on the lazy release consistency model. Unlike the previous schemes in which the logging is perf...

It is both an honor and a source of sadness that I present this first Thomas A. Neff Lecture. Tom had the primary attributes ofthe academic chestphysician.he was a fine and dedicated teacher, and a caring, highly competent practi¬ tioner of his specialty. I also have it from someone who should know that he was a favorite of the fellows. At a time when specialty medicine needs more Tom Neffs, th...