Objective: To examine the association between anxious school refusal and truancy and psychiatric disorders in a community sample of children and adolescents using a descriptive rather than etiological definition of school refusal. Method: Data from eight annual waves of structured psychiatric interviews with 9to 16-year-olds and their parents from the Great Smoky Mountains Study were analyzed. ...

â  â  background eosinophilic gastroenteritis (eg) is a rare inflammatory disorder of the gastrointestinal (gi) tract. there have been several case series of patients with eg from the western world and east asia. however, there has not been a report of patients with eg from the middle east region. the aim of this study is to describe clinical characteristics and treatment response in a series o...