Children Should Not Be Silenced

I-14: Assisted Reproduction and Religion What Consideration Should Be and Should Not Be Relevant,

Several important issues are pertinent to an ethical discussion of the new technology today grouped under the name Assisted Reproduction Technology (ART). This is a moral imperative because each of us must decide what is to be considered ethically acceptable in assisted reproduction. Reflecting on the ethical dimension of ‘creating’ a new human life can play a major role in ensuring that in eac...

O3: Children are Not Small Adults! What should be done to Better Protect Them?

Road Traffic injuries are known as the most prevalent childhood injury and besides being the greatest cause of child mortality, place an extraordinary burden on health care system. Children’s limitation in cognitive, physical and social development makes them more vulnerable in road traffic injuries than adults. Their small structure cause challenges to see and be seen and their risk taki...

MRS Shimming: An Important Point Which Should not be Ignored

Introduction: Proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) is a well-known device for analyzing the biological fluids metabolically. Obtaining accurate and reliable information via MRS needs a homogeneous magnetic field in order to provide well-defined peaks and uniform water suppression. There are lots of reasons which can disturb the magnetic field homogeneity which can be corrected by a proc...

Chickenpox vaccination, not chickenpox, should be routine for Canadian children.

Hypotonic fluids should not be used in volume-depleted children.

To the Editor: We read with interest the excellent article of Daugas et al [1] on HAART-related nephropathies and we would like to clarify several points. There has been no case report of Fanconi syndrome (FS) related to reverse transcriptase inhibitors (RTIs) except one induced by didanosine [2]. Actually, the suspected case of nevirapine-induced FS was largely related to lactic acidosis rathe...