Acid ingestion in pediatric population; negligence to be compensated with lifelong morbidity

Should Clinical Services Provided by Pharmacists be Compensated?

Vets may be compensated.

-The distribution of malignant melanoma among the 4 major body sites (head, upper limb, lower limb and remainder (trunk)) was investigated for 37 white populations. Although UV radiation is generally considered to be the major aetiological agent, it was found that 75% of the tumours occurred on the relatively unexposed body sites. However, the sex differences in the incidence of melanoma at the...

Should Clinical Services Provided by Pharmacists be Compensated?

Pediatric tuberculosis: what needs to be done to decrease morbidity and mortality.

OBJECTIVE Tuberculosis (TB) control programs have been less successful among children than among adults in the United States. Between 1992 and 1997, the rate of decline of TB cases among 0- to 14-year-old children was less than the rate of decline among any other age group of US-born persons. Because of the higher prevalence of active TB among adults and their higher infectivity, most programs ...

The effects of habitual negligence among families with respect to pediatric burns.

BACKGROUND In this study, scald burns in a Turkish population (0-16 years of age) were studied with reference to their occurrence and common causes. METHODS Of the burn victims hospitalized at the Burns Unit of Ankara Numune Education and Research Hospital between April 2001 and December 2003, 354 patients were aged 3 months to 16 years and 228 (64.4%) were male. RESULTS When burn causes we...