Background Fever is a common presenting sign in children and infants. However, the management of febrile neonates (< 30 days) could be particularly challenging, mainly due to the paucity of specific signs and symptoms to discriminate “simple, self-limited infections”, mostly of viral origin, from serious, life-threatening infections, mostly of bacterial aetiology. Despite several strategies and...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the relationship between exposure to a landfill site closed 6 years previously and respiratory symptoms in children aged up to 13 years. METHOD This was a cross-sectional study conducted in Várzea Paulista, in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. One adult in every household in a neighborhood close to the landfill and from a randomized sample of households in another neigh...

Historical and current studies indicate that the Eastern region of the Mediterranean has been distinguished from other regions by a rich inventory of complementary alternative medicine (CAM), in particular herbal medicine. Data collected from several surveys and studies indicate that there is a flourishing and well-developed trade of herbs. These surveys also reveal that 200-250 herbs are used ...

Four cases are described in which totally cloth-covered Starr-Edwards valves (model 2300) had to be removed. All were causing significant haemolysis, two in the absence of a peripheral leak. The principal operative finding was destruction of the Dacron covering the struts. Following replacement of these prostheses there was complete resolution of signs and symptoms. The possible causes of haemo...

The second edition of The Compleat Pediatrician was reviewed favorably irn the YALE JOURNAL OF BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE in October, 1938. A third edition of this unique pediatric manual is now at hand. To keep "symptoms and signs as clues" and therapeutic procedures in pediatric practice abreast of the facts and experience acquired during the past three years, it has been necessary to make changes ...

Overt psychological, neurological and haematological abnormalities were present in a 35 year old Jamaican female diagnosed as having idiopathic periodic hypothermia. Although symptoms and signs were ameliorated by warming, no long term satisfactory therapeutic measure was identified. Despite extensive clinical and subsequently histological investigation no cause for the hypothermia was found al...

This investigation concerns a study of an upper respiratory disease in dogs which is frequently complicated by pneumonia and encephalitic symptoms. Dr. Leon F. Whitney first reported this syndrome' in 1943 and he described the clinical signs and symptoms, the complications, and the course of the disease. A summary of the initial experimental and pathological studies carried on by workers at the...