Introduction: Breast milk is a complete food for growing children until 6 months of age, and mothers, as the most important child health care, play a decisive role in their growth. So promoting  their attitude toward the benefits of breastfeeding ensures guarantee child health in the future. This study aimed to assess maternal knowledge and attitude of Mashhad toward exclusive BMF in the first ...

Introduction: Breast milk is a complete food for growing children until 6 months of age, and mothers, as the most important child health care, play a decisive role in their growth. So promoting  their attitude toward the benefits of breastfeeding ensures guarantee child health in the future. This study aimed to assess maternal knowledge and attitude of Mashhad toward exclusive BMF in the first ...

OBJECTIVE Diagnosis of abnormal fontanel size, a potential clue to recognition of different disorders, requires an understanding of the wide variation of normal fontanel size. The anterior fontanel is the largest, prominent and most important for clinical evaluation. The aim of this study was to establish and define normal range of fontanel size from birth to 24 months of age in healthy Iranian...

The development of the coagulation and anticoagulation system in preterm infants was assessed, with special emphasis on extremely low birth weight (ELBW) infants and haemorrhagic or other complications after birth. Coagulation factors II (prothrombin), V (FV), VII (FVII) and X (FX) were analysed at birth and at a corrected age of six months. In addition, antithrombin (AT), protein C (PC) and pr...

Experience plays a crucial role in the development of face processing. In the study reported here, we investigated how faces observed within the visual environment affect the development of the face-processing system during the 1st year of life. We assessed 3-, 6-, and 9-month-old Caucasian infants' ability to discriminate faces within their own racial group and within three other-race groups (...

OBJECTIVE Our objective with this study was to examine whether observed maternal control during feeding at 6 months of age moderates the development of early infant weight gain during the first year of life. METHODS Sixty-nine women were observed feeding their 6-month-old infants during a standard meal. Mealtimes were coded for maternal use of controlling feeding behavior. All infants were we...

Introduction Two novel formulations of praziquantel (PZQ) and Levo-(L-)PZQ (arpraziquantel) have been developed for the treatment schistosomiasis in preschool-age children infants. Methods This open-label, dose-finding Phase 2 study assessed efficacy safety PZQ infants infected with Schisostoma mansoni Côte d’Ivoire. In Part 1, 420 aged 2.1–6.9 years (weight 10.0–29.9 kg) were enrolled randomiz...

BACKGROUND Data from a longitudinal study of 153 low-income Peruvian infants were used to assess the relationship between internationally-recommended definitions of feeding practices and infants' monthly weight gain and weight status at 12 months. METHODS Infants were classified into feeding categories using monthly reported data. Analysis of variance was used to assess the relationship betwe...