Introduction Takayasu arteritis (TA) is a granulomatous large vessel vasculitis that involves the aorta, its major branches and pulmonary arteries. Diagnosis of TA during childhood remains challenging due to the non-specific symptoms. It primarily affects East Asian women in their second or third decade of life but is well known to affect all ethnicities across the world. Given its systemic nat...

1 School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Herston, Queensland, Australia, 2 Centre for International Child Health, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, University of Melbourne, Royal Children’s Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia, 3 Department of Health Services Research and Policy, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, 4 Nossal Institute for...

Spend your time even for only few minutes to read a book. Reading a book will never reduce and waste your time to be useless. Reading, for some people become a need that is to do every day such as spending time for eating. Now, what about you? Do you like to read a book? Now, we will show you a new book enPDFd weaving a library web a guide to developing childrens websites that can be a new way ...

Molecular Recognition by Self-Assembled 1413 Monolayers of Cavitand Receptors K. D. Schierbaum, T. Weiss, E. U. Thoden van Velzen, J. F. J. Engbersen, D. N. Reinhoudt, W. Gopel FRONTIERS IN MEDICINE: VACCINES F NEWS REPORTS Bumps on the Vaccine Road Are Researchers Racing Toward Success, Or Crawling? U.S. National Program Is Going Nowhere Fast Childrens' Vaccine Initiative Stumbles POLICY FORUM...

Human coronavirus (HCoV) NL63, a newly discovered coronavirus, has been associated with acute lower respiratory tract infections (ALRTI). We detected HCoV-NL63 via reverse transcriptional PCR (RT-PCR) in eight out of 878 respiratory specimens freshly collected from hospitalized children with ALRTI between April 2006 and March 2008 in Childrens Hospital of Chongqing Medical University. Peak of H...

In this paper we present the idea of Exer-learning games integrating the element of exercise into serious games. The combination of motion, learning and playing is assumed to facilitate intrinsic motivation and learning achievements. For the application of exer-learning games, the concept of HOPSCOTCH is introduced that is inspired by the popular childrens game. Two demonstrators of this concep...

The prognostic significance of c-kit receptor expression on leukemic blast cells was determined in 122 children with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) entered onto Childrens Cancer Group protocol 213. Clinical and laboratory characteristics as well as outcome were analyzed according to the percentage of blast cells expressing c-kit receptors and the relative number of c-kit receptors per cell as det...