Childhood imported malaria: could we have suppressed risk factors in some children?

Risk factors for severe early childhood caries in 2-3-year-old children in Rasht

Introduction: Severe early childhood caries is the presence of smooth-surface caries in children younger than three years of age. This rampant form of dental caries exerts a negative impact on the quality of life of both the child and the family .The purpose of this study was to investigate the risk factors for severe early childhood caries (S-ECC) among 2-3 year-old children in Rasht. Materia...

Could and Should Have We Dayton ?

The US sponsored peace talks in Dayton in autumn 1995 gathered representatives of the three constituent peoples of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the neighboring states, and an internationally composed five member Contact groupeach of them trying to end a war, but also to promote some other specific interests and in that way influencing the outcome of negotiations. When estimating the Dayton Agreement...

A. Some Proofs We Have

Imported Malaria in Children in Industrialized Countries, 1992–2002

Children account for an appreciable proportion of total imported malaria cases, yet few studies have quantified these cases, identified trends, or suggested evidence-based prevention strategies for this group of travelers. We therefore sought to identify numbers of cases and deaths, Plasmodium species, place of malaria acquisition, preventive measures used, and national origin of malaria in chi...

Risk factors for childhood stroke: little folks have different strokes!

In the current issue, Ganesan and colleagues present comprehensive data on stroke risk factors in a large, well-defined consecutive cohort of children with arterial ischemic stroke. Ischemic stroke in childhood is emerging as a serious, frequent, and underrecognized disorder, affecting at least 7 per 100,000 children per year. There have been no randomized, clinical trials of acute or secondary...