Women who are battered in the family or by intimate partner may experience syndrome as a result of abuse they exposed to. This has been expressed woman syndrome. The negatively affects daily lives women, and it can also have negative consequences business life for working women. situations such female employee's inability to focus on her job, decrease performance, reveal full potential, often a...

Ms. Sharwline Nicholson probably did not realize that what she experienced on January 7, 1999 would change her life, the lives of her two children, and ultimately, the lives of many other battered mothers and children in New York. A thirty-two-year-old mother of two, Ms. Nicholson worked as a full-time cashier and attended classes full-time at Mercy College. Mr. Barnett, the father of Ms. Nicho...

the hyperimmunoglobulin e  syndrome is a rare complex primary immunodeficiency characterized by high serum ige levels, eczema, and recurrent infections. we present a case of 2-years-old girl with eczema and repeated bacterial skin and lung infections since the period of infancy. the patient also had eosinophilia, high serum levels of ige, and cows-milk hypersensitivity. we describe the case, in...

kawasaki disease (kd) is an acute vasculitis syndrome of unknown etiology. it occurs in infants and young children, affecting mainly small and medium-sized arteries, particularly the coronary arteries. generalized microvasculitis occurs in the first 10 days, and the inflammation persists in the walls of medium and small arteries, especially the coronary arteries, and changes to coronary artery ...

background it is estimated that survival of children with perinatally transmitted acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (aids) in brazil is around 60 months, and an upward trend has been shown over recent years. the reduction in mortality rates in brazilian children is mainly attributed to the effectiveness of antiretroviral therapy. objectives the aim of this study was to characterize the epidemi...

Although studies have identified a relationship between a history of child sexual abuse (CSA) and problems with hypoactive sexual desire, little is known about the potential cognitive and affective mechanisms involved in the sexual desire of women with a history of CSA. In this study, 27 women with a history of CSA and 22 women with no history of abuse were asked to write about sexual and non s...

This article assesses the possible association between stepfatherhood and violence against wives in Hamilton, Ontario. The sample population comprised women who sought refuge from abusive male partners at a shelter for abused women and their children during 1986-87. Comparing shelter data for 1986-87 with survey data for 1983, results showed that steprelationship was not a correlate of either ...

isolated impacted supernumerary teeth are quite rare, but they can be seen associated with several syndromes such as cleidocranial dysostosis or gardner's syndrome. this article aims to discuss a case of sequential formation of supernumerary teeth with no other associated disease or syndrome. a 17-year-old iranian male with 8 impacted supernumerary teeth was referred to the department of pediat...

background: to study the effect of oral garlic on arterial oxygen pressure in children with hepatopulmonary syndrome. materials and methods: garlic powder in a capsule form was given to 15 children with hepatopulmonary syndrome (confirmed by contrast echocardiography) at the dosage of 1 g/1.73 m2 per day. patients were evaluated clinically and by arterial blood gas every four weeks. results: th...