A new initiative: the Children's Digestive Health and Nutrition Foundation.

New children's vaccine initiative launched.

The international community has launched the Children's Vaccine Initiative, which has created the most ambitious grouping of public and private sector interests ever to tackle a global health issue. Developed by WHO, UNICEF, UNDP, the World Bank, and the Rockefeller Foundation, the initiative is the result of decisions taken at the World Summit for Children, held in New York in September 1990....

A CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION MONOGRAPH SERIES By NASPGHAN and The NASPGHAN Foundation for Children’s Digestive Health and Nutrition faculty

Translational approaches for pharmacotherapy development for acute diarrhea.

*Department of Medicine and Physiology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland; Department of Internal Medicine, Washington niversity, St. Louis, Missouri; Department of Internal Medicine and Digestive Diseases, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut; The Bill and ¶ Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, Washington; Division of Digestive Diseases an...

Reducing Measurement Error in Nutrition Assessment: Potential Research Implications for Iran

Self-reported measures of dietary intake are prone to measurement error that may obscure the relationship of diet and disease. This review addresses strategies to decrease errors during collection of dietary data and statistical approaches to deal with measurement issues once the data are collected.  Examples from two US studies-- the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) Dietary Modificat...

The relationship between maternal lifestyle and children’s body mass index: A cross-sectional study in Abadan, Iran

Background & aim: The nutritional status of children is assessed by height, weight and body mass index (BMI). Several factors affecting the child's BMI. Parents act as models for children regarding the consumption of food and nutrition, and their nutrition practices and lifestyle affect a child's diet and weight indirectly. This cross-sectional study was conducted to a...