Cancer: What Everyone Should Know about It

What every pediatrician should know about liver transplantation

Liver transplantation is the treatment of choice for children with end-stage liver disease.  Improvement in outcomes (allograft and patient survival) has led to widespread use of pediatric LT worldwide. This success is due to improvement in patient selection, transplant surgery, anesthesia/postoperative care and immunosuppression management. This review will focus on different aspects of LT whi...

Ten Things Everyone Should Know About Inflation

These lecture notes are organized into ten lessons that summarize the status of inflationary cosmology. 1 Inflation is a Bold and Expansive Paradigm The hot big-bang cosmology is very successful. It provides a physical description of the Universe from about 10 sec onward [1]. However, it raises fundamental questions about initial conditions: The origin of the smoothness and flatness of our Hubb...

Five Things Everyone Should Know about SCHIP

In August 1997, Congress enacted the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), with bipartisan support, as Title XXI of the Social Security Act. SCHIP gives states a higher federal match than Medicaid—that is, a higher federal contribution for every dollar of state funds spent on the program. In contrast to Medicaid, however, SCHIP’s federal contribution is not an open-ended entitlemen...

The Human Kidney. What Everyone Should Know

Mowbray, M.B., B.Ch., M.R.C.P. and Richard A. Parker, M.D. (Pp. 58. 12s.). London: Chest and Heart Association, 1970. THIS little book of 57 pages, according to its title has been written for everyone, but readers without previous knowledge of the kidney would find it difficult reading. In a book of this type the information needs to be presented in very simple form, in non-technical language, ...

Erythema nodosum :what should we consider about it?