BACKGROUND The Rourke Baby Record (RBR) - http://www.rourkebabyrecord.ca - is a freely available evidence-based structured form for child health surveillance from zero to five years. Family physicians/general practitioners (FP/GPs) doing office based well-baby care in three Ontario Canada cities (London, Ottawa, and Toronto) were randomly sampled to study the prevalence and utility of the RBR a...

OBJECTIVE To investigate parents' opinions about enrolling their premature baby into several research studies in the few days after birth. METHODOLOGY A questionnaire was given to parents of premature babies in the neonatal intensive care unit who had been invited to join several studies (two to seven). RESULTS All 50 mothers and 42 of 48 fathers completed the questionnaire independently; 2...

PURPOSE To evaluate the tolerance of baby skin-care products with at least 95% naturally derived ingredients on infants and toddlers. MATERIALS AND METHODS Healthy, full-term infants and toddlers aged 1-36 months were enrolled. In study 1, a lightly fragranced natural baby hair and body wash (n=30), a lightly fragranced natural baby shampoo (n=30), or a lightly fragranced natural baby lotion ...

very constipated. The weight at birth had been lbs. It had been bottle-fed from the beginning. On admission it weighed 5f lbs., otherwise ordinary physical examination was negative. The combination of vomiting with constipation in a baby a few weeks old?especially a male baby?was so suggestive of congenital stenosis of the pylorus that when I saw the baby on the morning of the 2nd July, I decid...