background: recent studies have shown the trends in children cancer types, its frequencies, and mortality in some areas of the world. the aim of this study was to analyze the pattern of childhood cancer in a university affiliated hospital for the first time in sari in a period of 10 years (2001-2010) and to compare the results with similar reports. methods: this descriptive retrospective study ...

BACKGROUND Childhood mortality is high in low- and middle-income countries. Burns are one of the five leading causes of childhood injury mortality in South Africa (SA). While there is an abundance of literature on burns in the developed world, there are far fewer publications dealing with childhood mortality related to burns in Africa and SA. OBJECTIVE To describe the mortality of children ad...

Roberts, D. F., Chavez, J., and Court, S. D. M. (1969). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 45, 33. The genetic component in child mortality. Analysis of the causes of death in 1041 children in all Newcastle hospitals admitting children in the period 1960 to 1966 shows that genetically determined disease makes a major contribution, 42% in this series, to the total of mortality in childhood. The f...

UNLABELLED Remarkable progress has been made in the development of antimicrobial therapy, effective vaccines and pneumonia management guidelines in the past 50 years. However, pneumonia is currently the leading cause of death in children younger than 5 years in developing countries, accounting for approximately 20% of childhood deaths. This article reviews changes in the epidemiology, managemen...

Brain tumors are the second most common cancer in children after leukemia and constitute about 20% of all childhood cancers in the United States (1). The annual incidence is approximately 34 pen million children under 15 years of age. The incidence may be rising; the U.S. National Cancer Institute reported an increase in the period 1973-1988 (1). With a 5-year relative survival rate of approxim...

Although important advances have been made in curing childhood cancer in the last several decades, long-term survivors face considerable morbidity and mortality because of late effects from their initial anticancer therapy. By 30 years after treatment, the cumulative mortality from treatment-related medical illness actually exceeds that of mortality from cancer recurrence. Cardiovascular diseas...

In a recent article in this journal I challenged Szreter and Mooney's account of mortality crisis English industrial manufacturing cities the period c. 1830–1850. argued, first, that there was no robust evidence for major fall urban life expectancies period; second, rise early childhood, but occurred rural as well populations, persisted until 1860s; third, an increase virulence scarlet fever ma...

Acute lower respiratory infections, which broadly include pneumonia and bronchiolitis, are still the leading cause of childhood mortality. ALRI contributed to 18% of all deaths in children younger than five years of age in 2008 [1], and the main pathogens responsible for high mortality were Streptococcus pneumoniae, Haemophilus influenzae and respiratory syncytial virus [2-4]. In addition, meni...

BACKGROUND Childhood IQ has been related to mortality in later life in four studies. Cognitive ability may be a mediator between early disadvantage and mortality, a marker of the efficiency of information processing in the central nervous system, or predict entry to safe adult environments or healthy behaviours. We examined mortality in relation to cognitive ability at age 8 years in a birth co...

CONTEXT Preterm birth is a major cause of infant morbidity and mortality. Less is known about long-term health among persons born preterm. OBJECTIVE To determine the long-term effects of preterm birth on survival, reproduction, and next-generation preterm birth. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS Population-based, observational, longitudinal study using registry data from 1,167,506 singleton...