Cholera outbreaks globally constitute a major public health challenge especially in Africa where about 90% of cases are being reported (WHO, 2008). It is even more worrisome that globally only abou...
The best global indicator of a child's wellbeing is growth. Infections and poor nutrition or usually a combination of both, are major factors affecting physical growth and mental development. Growt...
The tiny island state of Timor Leste is a mere dot on the world map. As one of the least developed nations in the world, it suffers a high burden of infectious disease. An ongoing challenge has bee...
The TMJ (temporomandibular joint) is a complex joint, with distinct anatomical and functional characteristics, difficult to treat. Many authors, from the early twentieth century, reported technique...
This is the work of Dr. Steven Ibua. It is a study to determine the correlation between maternal weights of women attending antenatal clinic to the neonatal outcomes in terms of birth weight. The s...
Adverse Childhood Experiences refer to some of the most intensive and frequently occurring sources of stress that children may suffer early in life. Such experiences include multiple types of abuse...
The aim of this book is to introduce the new treatment option for newborns delivered from mother with PPROM and PROM. The morbidity and mortality is higher in newborns delivered from mothers with P...
The aim of this book is to introduce the new treatment option for newborns delivered from mother with PPROM and PROM. The morbidity and mortality is higher in newborns delivered from mothers with P...
This manual is assigned for pediatricians and health care workers who deal with children and adolescents, based on an updated methodological approach. It displays twelve chapters that cover: an ove...
Health is wealth. There is nothing in our life that is more valuable than good health. Without health there is no happiness, no peace and no success. A person with bad health cannot enjoy the pleas...
Synthetic Corticosteroids or steroids since the early 1940s have been developed for their anti-inflammatory and immunomodulatory effects. Dental patients with the history of corticosteroid usage ma...
The present study was designed to detect the impact of fertility, histopathalogical and the cytotoxicity effect of ferula hermonis extract on male albino mice. To study the effect of F. hermonis, m...
The kidneys are the most vulnerable genitourinary organ in trauma, as they are involved in up to 3.25% of trauma patients. The most common mechanism for renal injury is blunt trauma (predominantly ...
The premise of this work is the realization that cancer cannot be treated by single specialty. The surgeon, medical oncologist and radiation oncologist should not work in the secluded sphere of his...
This book provides an insight about the maxillary expansion treatment procedure used in Orthodontics. Every orthodontic patients desires fast orthodontic treatment results. RME helps in faster expa...
CAM or natural healing has been part of public healthcare choices in Ireland from early monastic times, when cures were sought and used for a range of ailments. Natural healing predates biomedicine...
Little is known about the impact of eating disorders (ED) on pregnancy, infant growth and cognitive development. Preliminary reports indicate increased complications during pregnancy and lower birt...
Tissue engineering, a relatively new science integrating developmental, molecular/cellular biology, and genetics with field of engineering holds promise in this area. This field is increasingly bei...
Smoking of tobacco is the oldest, most widespread and socially most acceptable bad habit of people, with explanation that it is "cheap and legal drug" The Survey on the use of tobacco products am...
Diphtheria is an acute infectious disease caused by toxigenic strains of Corynebacterium diphtheriae. It is Characterized by sore throat, low grade fever, and an adherent membrane on the tonsils, p...