The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are eight international development goals to be achieved by 2015 addressing poverty, hunger, maternal and child mortality, communicable disease, education, gender inequality, environmental damage and the global partnership. Most activities worldwide have focused on maternal and child health and communicable diseases, while less attention has been paid to ...

Interstitial lung diseases (ILDs) occur through out childhood and adult life. In neonates and infants, defects in lung development and growth and defects in surfactant production and function are common features with the environmental factors being less important. For older children, genetic background combined with environmental exposure is central to the pathophysiology of ILD. In adults, env...

abstract how to cite this article: eryılmaz a, başal y, günel c, ozkul a, tosun a. successful treatment of essential palatal tremor lasting over a long term with a rare application of botulinum toxin in a child. iran j child neurol. autumn 2015;9(4): 75-77. abstract objective attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (adhd) is one of the most prevalent mental health disorders. in recent years, t...

The Parliament of Great Britain approved three-parent IVF project with 382 votes for and 128 votes against it on 3rd February, 2015. In case of the project approval in House of Lords, Great Britain would be the first country which legalizes the action. The purpose of this procedure is prevention of genetic diseases with mitochondrial defects in which the defective mitochondria in the cytoplasm ...

Of the estimated 85% of Papua New Guinea’s 6.8 million people who live in rural areas, most defecate in the open or use very basic toilets. Papua New Guinea has high rates of infant mortality (57 per 1000) and child mortality (68 per 1000) as well as maternal mortality. Preventable diseases such as pneumonia, diarrhoea, malaria, under-nutrition, tuberculosis and HIV are significant causes of ch...

OBJECTIVE To describe the utilization and associated factors for preventive and curative care utilization among children affiliated to the Medical Insurance for a New Generation (SMNG). MATERIALS AND METHODS Data from the 2009 National Survey of SMNG was analyzed. RESULTS The analysis represented 1,316,867 children; 25% of urban and 37.5% of rural mothers that took their children to well-ch...

BACKGROUND There is close association between maltreatment during pregnancy and child abuse after birth. AIM To compare anthropometric growth and use of health services of children whose mothers suffered maltreatment with children coming from families without domestic violence. SUBJECTS AND METHODS A longitudinal study of two cohorts. An index groups formed by 76 children whose mothers expe...

INTRODUCTION Making working conditions safe and healthy is the interest of workers, employers and the Government.Although it seems simple and obvious, this idea has not yet gained meaningful recognition in Nepal. MATERIALS AND METHODS The study was conducted in ten small scale industries of Kathmandu valley. Altogether 545 questionnaires on socioeconomic and occupational history were filled u...

It is crucial to realize that both omental infarction and acute appendicitis can occur simultaneously in the children as both diseases are managed differently. Omental infarction itself is rare in the pediatric group, and its association with acute appendicitis is even rarer. Both diseases usually present with right sided abdominal pain. Ultrasound is the choice of imaging modality in the inves...

Granulomatous inflammatory diseases are disorders of an undetermined etiology, affecting different organs and having a diverse clinical course. Familial aggregation of these disorders is being reported increasingly, most commonly familial Crohn's disease. We described the coexistence of Crohn's disease and necrotizing sarcoid-like granulomatous disease in two siblings from a first-degree consan...