BACKGROUND Recently, an infant and child feeding index (ICFI) constructed on brief recalls of breastfeeding, feeding frequency and food diversification was assumed to provide long-term prediction about child feeding practices. The aim of this study was to investigate the association between the cross-sectional ICFI (CS-ICFI) or longitudinal ICFI (L-ICFI) and child anthropometric indices in down...

William Guybon Atherstone: His 8-day and 1 600 km house call to Oudtshoorn in 1890 To the Editor: William Guybon Atherstone (1814 1898) became well known because for six decades he and his father, John Atherstone, practised medicine in Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape during the turbulent Frontier Wars. When not attending patients, he pursued his interests in geology and botany. He is best known...

Objective: To determine increase in root(s) length and thickness and closure of apical foramen in patients undergoing revascularization of immature, permanent, necrotic teeth Material and Methods: This study was conducted at outpatient department of Operative Dentistry, Pakistan institute of medical sciences (PIMS), Islamabad, from 22 January 2011 to 22 January 2013. All the patients were asses...