Intimacy is a cellular turn-on he simple act of coming closer together ignites signaling pathways in epithelial cells, as shown and colleagues. The results describe how cells might activate cellular responses to T mechanical stress. Cells are pushed closer together by physical forces. In the lung, for instance, epithelial cells feel the pressure from underlying muscle tissue, particularly in as...

p c f f [ p 2 c In recent years, the amount of information available on the ealth status of children and—to a lesser extent—adolescents iving in lowand middle-income countries (LMICs) has been assively expanded. Population-based surveys, repeated evry 5 years or so, are now available for 100 LMICs, providing information on nutritional status, health-related behaviors, morbidity, and mortality [...

C hildren with congenital and acquired heart disease typically undergo imaging procedures that may expose them to large amounts of ionizing radiation. Radiation exposure in childhood is of particular concern because children have immature developing organ and tissue structures. These factors , as well as the potentially longer lifespan of these children , may significantly increase lifetime can...

Perspective C hildren are often touted as being very important members of society because they represent our future. Optimizing their health outcomes has the potential for a huge impact on public health because children are at an early stage in the life trajectory. But it is often unclear how society allocates its resources or creates policies to ensure that it invests in children's health. The...

Many language implementations provide a me hanism to express on urrent pro esses, but few provide support for terminating a pro ess based on its resour e onsumption. Those implementations that do support termination generally harge the ost of a resour e to the prin ipal that allo ates the resour e, rather than the prin ipal that retains the resour e. The di eren e matters if prin ipals represen...

ulmonary complications are common among HIV-infected hildren. Early diagnosis and immediate care are important in rder to reduce morbidity and mortality. Bronchoscopy with ronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) have been routinely used in the iagnostic approach of pulmonary complications caused by IV-1.1,2 Due to immune defects, the risk of HIV-infected people o develop pneumonia is 10 to 100 times higher...

A young girl had been developing speech and language normally until abou t the age of three and a half Over a period of weeks, her communicative ability deterior ated to the point where she was simply pointing and using gestures. She was diagnosed as having suffered bilateral temporal lobe seizures. The seizure activity has been und er control since December, 1977. For the last three years, thi...

Psychosocial Interventions Used to Treat Children with ADHD Safety and Efficacy Steven W. Evans, PhD; Brandon K. Schultz, EdD; and Joanna M. Sadler, BS Although stimulant therapy is the most common treatment for attention-deficit/ hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in children, it is not always effective in reducing behavioral symptoms. As a result, research on psychosocial interventions has progres...

Paediatric Association [7] currently recommend red reflex assessment as a component of the eye evaluation in the neonatal period and during all subsequent routine health supervision visits. The purpose of this policy statement is to minimize the risk of delay in the diagnosis of serious vision-threatening or life-threatening disorders. Despite these worldwide recommendations, there are large va...

Introduction Media re ports s uch as “Virt ual Worlds t hreaten ‘va lues” (BBC news, 20 07); “Vi olent you th crim e risin g, statistics show” ( The V ancouver Sun , 2007); “Hooked on games: battling a cyb er-addiction” (Tim es Colonist, 2007); “New video games sell sex i nstead of mayhem” (Times Colonist, 2006) sensationalize video games and i mply a dire state of violence, health related prob...