First Things First: Protecting Children with Asthma from Infection with Influenza

First things first: protecting children with asthma from infection with influenza.

Currently in the U.S., approximately 7 million children (9.4%) have asthma (1), making it the most prevalent serious chronic illness among U.S. children. Clinically, the association of viral respiratory infections and asthma exacerbations has been understood for decades. More recently, infections with particular viruses have been identified as being particularly risky: respiratory syncytial vir...

Experimenting with Agile Practices - First Things First

Faced with challenges in relation to interpretation of requirements, issues with build and deployment and excessive integration defects, this paper examines how a software team propose using a novel combination of Covey’s ‘First Things First’ principle and Cockburn’s Methodology Shaping, as a potential solution to examine their current process and define a new set of working conventions which w...

First Seroprevalence Survey of Children with Tularemia Infection in Chaharmahal va Bakhtiari Province, Iran

  Background and Objectives: An increasing number of tularemia was reported in all over the world. This infection is characterized by different clinical syndromes that can be considered in differential diagnosis of infectious disease. Despite effective antibiotics against Francisella tularensis, this infection is still as one of the agent of mortality and disability among infectious disease.Th...

First things first.

First things first.