OBJECTIVE: Giving recommended immunizations during sick visits for minor and acute illness such as acute otitis media has long been an American Academy of Pediatrics/Advisory Committee on Immunization Practice recommendation. An addition to the American Academy of Pediatrics policy in 2010 advised considering whether giving immunizations at the sick visit would discouragemaking upmissed well-ba...

A baby inherently possesses the capability of recognizing a new visual concept (e.g., chair, dog) by learning from only very few positive instances taught by parent(s) or others, and this recognition capability can then be gradually further improved by exploring and/or interacting with the real instances in the physical world. In this work, we aim to build a computational model to interpret and...

OBJECTIVE: Giving recommended immunizations during sick visits for minor and acute illness such as acute otitis media has long been an American Academy of Pediatrics/Advisory Committee on Immunization Practice recommendation. An addition to the American Academy of Pediatrics policy in 2010 advised considering whether giving immunizations at the sick visit would discouragemaking upmissed well-ba...

A 30-year-old pregnant woman had skin lesions at 38 weeks of gestation. She was diagnosed as primary varicella zoster infection. Her clinical symptoms were high fever and generalized vesicles eruption. No serious maternal complication was found. The patient delivered a male baby 4 days after she developed skin lesions. The neonatal blood IgM against varicella zoster was negative. The baby was g...

This paper explores the effective use of six characteristics of the mother and one characteristic of the baby in predicting the birth weight of the baby using stepwise multiple regression. Three variables, Le. the weight of the mother, the sex of the baby and the number of antenatal visits the mother made to the clinic, significantly predicted the birthweight of the baby. It is possible that ot...

To cite: Sharma D, Yadav J, Garg E. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/bcr-2014203535 DESCRIPTION Case A male baby with birth weight of 3.2 kg was born to primi mother at term gestation. The baby had Apgar score of 7/8/8 and at birth was diagnosed to have microcephaly, cleft palate, single eye with absence of nose. On echo the baby had ventricular septal ...

Baby walkers have been associated with burns, head trauma and other types of injury. A retrospective study of all infants under the age of two years attending an accident and emergency unit demonstrated 22 injuries associated with baby walkers from a total of 1049 attendances. The most serious injuries were three skull fractures, with the most common mechanism being of a fall downstairs in the ...

You plan to breastfeed when your new baby is born, but you have been told your baby has a problem with his heart, lungs, stomach, or other body part. Your baby will need surgery to fix this problem soon after birth and will need to be in the hospital for a while. This is very hard news for any expectant parent to hear, but breastfeeding may still be possible, and your breast milk is especially ...