conclusions every clinician must be alert to the possibility of battered baby in a child with multiple injuries. case presentation a three-year-old female child was brought with multiple bruises, fracture of left femur and features of raised intracranial tension. the etiology was unclear at presentation. inconsistencies in history given by the mother, a background of poverty and single parentho...

  Background: Improvement of assisted reproductive technique (ART) results in higher pregnancy rates from positive Beta HCG to take home baby statistics. Despite developments in culture media allowing blastocyst stage transfer, some centers apply second, third and sometimes fourth day post injection for embryo transfer. This study aimed to compare their reproductive outcomes.   Methods : This p...

This study describes the epidemiology of infants' hearing loss (IHL) among patients under 3 months of age at Caritas Baby Hospital, the only pediatric hospital in Palestine. It was aimed to demonstrate that IHL is a major health problem in Palestine and to assess the first available data of the newborn hearing screening program conducted between September 25, 2006 and December 31, 2011. Data wa...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS To determine the relationship between peripheral hearing loss (HL) in baby boomers (better-ear measure) and cognitive function, taking into account the impact of depression or cognitive reserve on this relationship and exploring binaural hearing. STUDY DESIGN A prospective, epidemiology study. METHODS Data from 1,969 participants aged 45 to 66 years were collected in t...

In 1955 Clement Smith wrote: 'Most of us who work in neonatal pediatrics are distressingly familiar with the sight of a small infant surrounded by a fog of vapour within a closed tent or incubator. This situation perhaps symbolizes the present status of this subject, which is essentially a very small body of facts enveloped in a misty atmosphere of speculation, which is walled off from its surr...

In this study the effect of intraumbilical vein oxytocin on duration and amount of blood loss in third stage of labour was studied. Pregnant women were randomized into two groups of fifty each. Study group was managed with 10 units of oxytocin diluted with 10 ml of normal saline given through umbilical vein while control group was managed with 10 units of oxytocin in 500 ml of normal saline thr...