eczema is a very common disorder that affects children. to find out the national prevalence of eczema in iranian children, we conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis. we conducted a literature review by using the google scholar, pubmed in medline area, altavista, iranmedex and magiran in august 2013. the search terms included: prevalence, eczema, children, pediatric, allergy, isaac and ...

Most working parents face a common dilemma--how to care for their children when they are not in school but the parents are at work. In this article Kathleen Christensen, Barbara Schneider, and Donnell Butler describe the predictable and unpredictable scheduling demands school-age children place on working couples and single working parents. The authors assess the potential capacity of schools t...

allergic rhinitis is a very common disorder that affects children. to determine the national prevalence of allergic rhinitis symptoms in iranian children, we conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis. we conducted a literature search by using the google scholar from 1992 until 2012. the search terms were included: allergic rhinitis, isaac and iran. all the selected studies on children wer...

background: there always has been a question about the best age for cochlear implantation (ci) in prelingual deaf children. the age factor in the outcome of cochlear implantation in prelingual deaf children has been the subject of many studies. the aim of the present study was to find the effect of age at the time of implantation on hearing threshold of these children.   methods: one hundred an...

background and aim: methods of age estimation with the aid of radiography have higher accuracy compared with other methods. some investigations have been performed in this regard, but the correlation between dental development and body mass index (bmi) has been limitedly researched. in the present study, the correlation between dental development and bmi in the children referring to the dental ...

Professor Lloyd began by quoting from William Blake's Songs of Experience, words written 37 years after the founding of the BRI from which she derived the title of her paper: Children of the future age, Reading this indignant page, Know that those who loved you best Were often thwarted by the rest. These lines written 200 years ago are still true. In 1976, a group chaired by Professor Donald Co...

Introduction: Children are one of the most vulnerable groups to sub-optimal nutritional intake in most societies. We have investigated some of the potential determinants of malnutrition in children of 2-5 years of age.   Methods and Materials: A cross sectional study was conducted to determine the relationship between nutritional status (weight for age, height for age and weight for height) and...

Background: Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) is a chronic autoimmune disease which is characterized by B-cell abnormality and auto-antibody generation. Since bacterial infections are the most important causes of mortality in these patients, pneumococcal vaccination is recommended for children with SLE. Objective: To investigate humoral immunity and specific-antibody formation in response to a...