BACKGROUND Trauma remains one of the most frequent presentations in emergency departments. Imaging has established role in setting of acute trauma with ability to identify potentially fatal conditions. Adequate knowledge of health professionals regarding trauma imaging is vital for improved healthcare. In this work we try to assess knowledge of medical students regarding imaging in trauma as we...

Abstract Polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) is an endocrine disorder commonly affecting the adolescent girls. Globally, prevalence rate around 4 to 12% and it affects 5 10% women in their reproductive age group. The study was conducted assess knowledge on PCOS among student nurses. This a questionnaire-based cross-sectional 350 girls of selected nursing college recruited using stratified random...

OBJECTIVE To determine the pattern of headache and its associated symptoms in school going children. METHODS The data of all the school going children attending the Headache Clinic in the Dept. of Neurology, Dhaka Medical College Hospital were retrospectively reviewed. A total of 1021 patients from October 1996 to September 2011 were selected. Data were collected through a predesigned questio...

While education gaps by gender have closed in many areas, they persist in STEM fields and particularly in mathematics. We study one potential explanation for this persistence: the transmission of bias from adults to children. We exploit the random assignment of children to classes in Chinese middle schools to generate plausibly exogenous variation in the proportion of peers’ parents who are bia...

BACKGROUND Childhood obesity is a major public health problem, with one third of America's children classified as either overweight or obese. Obesity prevention and health promotion programs using components such as wellness coaching and home-based interventions have shown promise, but there is a lack of published research evaluating the impact of a combined home-based and wellness coaching int...