Delivering births in a medical institution or at home with professional medical assistance has been shown to promote safe motherhood and child survival. Yet three-quarters of births in rural India continue to take place at home, most of them without the assistance of any trained health worker. This study examines the role of antenatal care (ANC) in promoting professional assistance at delivery,...

To study the effect of institutional rearing on physical growth and stress regulation we examined 16 institution-reared children (3-6 years old) in Ukraine and compared them with 18 native family-reared children pair-matched on age and gender. Physical growth trajectories were examined on the basis of archival medical records and current measurements of height, weight, and head circumference. S...

Relevance . In a pandemic, studies on the duration of immunity in those who have recovered from COVID-19 and formation resistance to new coronavirus infection are particular importance. Target To study retention time IgG blood serum employees medical institution COVID-19. Materials methods The assessment timing was first carried out 3 weeks after illness National Medical Research Center for Oto...

to become exclusively a medical institution focusing on curative procedures, and ultimately to expand its clientele to all levels of society. While large-scale involvement of medical men with hospitals doubtless preceded the administrative-institutional transformation of the latter (medical professionalization around the hospital clinic in France following the Revolution may have been one neces...

Sir,?In connection with the centenary of the Calcutta Medical College to be commemorated early next year, it is proposed to compile a volume giving a history of the origin and growth of this institution which has played such a large part in offering modern medical education and medical relief during the last 100 years. The compilers have tried their best to get together a connected link of hist...