R Gary Sibbald is Professor, Medicine and Public Health Science; Director of Continuing Education, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto; Director of Dermatology, Daycare and Wound Healing Clinic, Sunnybrook and Women’s Health Sciences Centre; Toronto Wound Healing Centres, Toronto, Ontario; and Chairman (Toronto Meeting 2008) of the World Union of Wound Healing Societies. Adam Katchky ...

Our study investigates the incidence of children left unattended in parked motor vehicles in Brazil. These events have been widely explored in the United States but less so abroad, and never in Brazil. Over the period from 2006 to 2015, we collected data from news reports on 31 cases, including 21 fatalities. The circumstances mostly involved a caregiver, especially a parent, forgetting the chi...

S. pneumoniae is a component of normal nasopharyngeal flora in children. Nasopharyngeal colonization in children attending daycare units has an important effect on the spread of S. pneumoniae. In this study, we aimed to investigate colonization status, antimicrobial susceptibility, and clonal relatedness of the S. pneumoniae strains in children attending a daycare unit. One hundred and six naso...

1. Overview of the Japanese Childcare System Government plays a principle role in running of childcare system in Japan. In specific, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) is responsible for regulating new entries into the market by setting a minimum standard in staff-child ratio, space of nursery room per child and capacities etc. Moreover, about 70% daycare centers are licensed ones wh...

1 Assistant Professor, Govt Medical College, Palakkad 2 Associate Professor Govt Medical College, Thiruvananthapuram Abstract Background: Over the past three decades, outpatient surgery has grown at an exponential rate. Various surgical conditions have been diagnosed and treated using laparoscopy on a day care basis. Aim: To study the induction characteristics like average time for induction of...

Our aim is to explore (1) whether gestational medication use, mode of delivery, and early postnatal exposure correlate with childhood asthma, (2) the dose responsiveness of such exposure, and (3) their links to early- and late-onset asthma. We conducted a matched case-control study based on the Taiwan Children Health Study, which was a nationwide survey that recruited 12-to-14-year-old school c...