Chemical Pathology and the Sick Child

Integrated management of the sick child.

Diarrhoea, pneumonia, measles, malaria and malnutrition account for more than 70% of deaths and health facility visits among children under 5 years of age in developing countries. A number of programmes in WHO and UNICEF have developed an approach to the integrated management of the sick child, which is being coordinated by WHO's Division for the Control of Diarrhoeal and Acute Respiratory Dise...

Life with the Mentally Sick Child

Chemical Pathology

has been done of late years on the chemistry of pathological processes. The subject of Chemical Pathology is in its infancy, but it is fairly certain that the future of Pathology and even of Medicine will be closely bound up in it. Hitherto Pathology has been concerned chiefly with morphological questions, and rightly so, for the morphological problems are much easier to solve than the chemical...

Child Congenital Platelet Pathology

Congenital platelet pathology refers to disorders of platelet function, the red cells being essential for the coagulation of blood. Congenital platelet disorders are important causes of bleeding that can quantitatively and qualitatively alter platelets, impairing their function. The purpose of this study is to summarize current knowledge on the different types of inherited platelet disorders, t...

Pathology across Europe 4: Chemical pathology.