background: approximately one percent of current live births of the world are conceived via assisted reproductive technologies (art). objective:  the purpose of this study was to compare the developmental status of children born through assisted and natural conceptions at the age of five years. materials and methods:  in a retrospective cohort study, developmental status of 5 years old children...

We investigated the association between prescribing antimicrobial agents and antimicrobial resistance of Streptococcus pneumoniae among children with acute otitis media in southern Israel. During a 6-year period, all prescriptions of a sample of approximately 20% of Jewish and Bedouin children <5 years of age were recorded and all pneumococcal isolates from middle ear fluid were collected. Alth...

Although many data sources describe the living arrangements and characteristics of children in general, few are large enough to permit the analysis of children by whether they are the biological, adopted, or stepchildren of the householder. Census 2000 included “adopted son/daughter” for the first time in the decennial census as a category of relationship to the householder separate from “natur...

This paper examines the effects of birth order on the child labor incidence and school attendance of Brazilian children. Evidence from the psychology and sociology literature suggests that earlier-born children tend to have higher innate abilities. The economic implications of these findings are that earlier-born children may have more intra -household resources directed to them when they are y...

INTRODUCTION Development disorder of the hip is a congenital, dynamic and progressive disease where there is disorder in the development of all elements of hip that is clinically shows as functional disorders. AIM To determine clinical and statistical arthrosonographic representation of developmental disorders of the hip at newborn babies in Tesanj region, with or without risk factors. MATE...

In the vast area of studies racism children’s experiences have been overlooked. Questions are often related to immigrants and their children, but in many European countries increasing numbers children mixed parentage, as well adopted from other continents, confront racism. My ethnographic study everyday lives Finnish with “transnational roots” focuses on transnational adoptees those young citiz...

onset of fertility decline move through their adult years towards old age. The result is that the proportion of children in the population falls and the proportion of older people rises. Once the fertility rate settles at a new, lower, level, the age structure of the population will shift (over about 70 years) to reach a new equilibrium with a permanently lower proportion of children and higher...

canavan disease is a rare, autosomal recessive inherited, neurological disorder, classified as a leukodystrophy. the symptoms of canavan disease appear in early infancy and progress rapidly. most infants with canavan disease appear normal early in life. by three to five months of age, macrocephaly, lack of head control, and developmental delays become apparent. developmental delay becomes more ...