to children. …

precautionary motive and we show that if we take consumption to take proper account of the number and ages of children, then … adjusted consumption does not track income. We do not infer from this that children are the sole cause of the rise in …

media in children. Acute otitis media is the most common disorder diagnosed by paediatricians and among the most common … indications for which antibacterial agents are prescribed in children. Although there is little consensus regarding the optimal … management of children with acute otitis media, the need for judicious use of antibacterial agents is generally recognised …

Parent training can be an effective strategy for assisting children and their families to cope with attention …

attenuated vaccines will be increasingly used in children. Inactivated vaccines will continue to be used mainly for the elderly …

metropolitan area. Alabama, US, is a largely rural state with a significant number of children born each year with SCD. Prior to … the development of our regional clinic network, the Children and Youth Sickle Network (CYSNSM), 50% of patients identified …

of budesonide. In children, fluticasone propionate was more cost effective per treatment success compared with inhaled …

diseases such as asthma. However, this measure is rarely used in young children in Asia because of the difficulty of obtaining … validate a disease-specific HR-QOL questionnaire (Childhood Asthma Questionnaire [CAQ]-B) for asthmatic children aged 7 … children had no difficulty understanding and completing the questionnaire. The median time taken to complete a questionnaire …

decades. The family stress related to the care of children with moderate or severe atopic dermatitis is significantly greater … than that of the care of children with type 1 diabetes mellitus. The factors contributing to family stress include sleep …

Background: Vaccinating children against influenza virus may reduce infections in immunised children and household … influenza virus vaccination of daycare children on costs of respiratory illnesses of the children and their household contacts … covering the period November to April of 1996-7 and 1998-9. Children (127 in 1996-7 and 133 in 1998-9) from daycare centres in …