Assistive technologies remain important in supporting student learning both in-person laboratories and the online laboratory environment. In this article, we describe an adaptation of a smartphone technology called Color Blind Pal app to aid students complementing assignments general chemistry course. The was integrated into three experiments help collect data from simulated flame tests, atomic...

Background: Alcohol is a potent teratogen and alcohol use in pregnancy and the periconception period can cause many complications in mother, fetus and neonate.  Discussion: Alcohol in the mother's blood passes through the placenta to the baby through the umbilical cord. Drinking alcohol during pregnancy can cause miscarriage, stillbirth, and a range of lifelong disorders. Alcohol-related birth ...

A meeting of concerned scientists, health officials, and policy makers was convened in February, 1992, at the Rockefeller Study and Conference Center in Bellagio, Italy, in response to recent calls to control or eliminate Vitamin A deficiency worldwide. The group was commissioned to explore the role of vitamin A status of child health in developing countries, to draw some conclusions, and to c...

OBJECTIVE To describe the clinical, ophthalmological, endocrinological and radiological features of 10 Saudi children with the syndrome of septo-optic dysplasia and hypothalamic hypopituitarism. METHODS All patients underwent complete ophthalmological and endocrinological evaluation at the Pediatric Endocrine Clinics, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center and King Fahad National...