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Treatment of Childhood Disease and Prevention of Childhood and Adult Disease

Nutrition Today, 2002
There are many examples of safe and efficacious supplement use in pediatric care, mostly the use of vitamins, minerals, protein, carbohydrate, and fat in specific clinical and diagnostic settings. The available scientific literature does not support the use of herbal and botanical compounds for common acute or chronic pediatric conditions.
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Gastroduodenal diseases of childhood

Current Opinion in Gastroenterology, 2006
This paper will review new developments in the etiology and management of gastric and duodenal diseases affecting children.Despite dropping prevalence rates in developed nations, most new Helicobacter pylori infections are primarily acquired during childhood.
Gayle, Horvitz, Benjamin D, Gold
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Hair diseases in childhood

Therapeutische Umschau, 2002
In dieser kurzen Übersicht werden vier wichtige Haarkrankheiten des Kindesalters besprochen. Die Trichotillomanie ist die bedeutsamste Differentialdiagnose zur kindlichen Alopecia areata; genaue Inspektion und weitgehendes Fehlen von Telogenhaaren im Trichogramm vom Herdrand reichen für die Unterscheidung meist schon aus.
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The Rheumatic Diseases in Childhood

Postgraduate Medicine, 1969
In general the laboratory is only moderately helpful in identifying rheumatic diseases in children. Diagnosis depends on careful attention to clinical detail and sometimes on protracted observation. Direct cure is usually not possible but treatment based on correct diagnosis can make the difference between life and death or between severe disability ...
V, Hanson, H, Kornreich
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Neurological diseases in childhood

Journal of Chronic Diseases, 1960
N EUROLOGICAL disease in childhood has been a long-neglected field in pediatrics. The neurologists have not understood children with such disease and the pediatrician’s knowledge of neurology has been scanty. The result has been a long list of descriptions of hereditary degenerative diseases, named usually by the first describer, but still too little ...
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Menière's disease in childhood

The Journal of Laryngology & Otology, 1976
Two cases of Menière's disease in childhood were found during one year from 850 examinations of children. The clinical and audiological findings are similar to those seen in adults.
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Hodgkin's disease in childhood

Journal of Cancer Research and Clinical Oncology, 1979
The histopathologic study of 103 patients with Hodgkin's disease including 5 cases who had staging laparotomy during the last 10 years were reviewed. The following conclusions were drawn: 1. No significant sex difference among subtypes were noted. 2. Associated glomerulopathy, nephrotic syndromes, and amyloidosis were occasionally found. 3.
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Cushing's disease in childhood

Trends in Endocrinology & Metabolism, 1996
Cushing's disease is rare in childhood. There is an equal sex incidence, and it accounts for approximately 75% of pediatric causes of Cushing's syndrome. Predominant features are weight gain, growth failure, virilization, and headache. Following confirmation of the presence of inappropriate hypercortisolemia, the accurate differential diagnosis to ...
M O, Savage, G M, Besser
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Metabolic diseases of childhood

Journal of Chronic Diseases, 1960
R ECENT advances in knowledge in biochemistry and in genetics have altered the concepts and stimulated a great interest in the “inborn errors of metabolism.” An exact delineation of the metabolic diseases of childhood is difficult because some of the less common and poorly understood disorders which have been historically classified as “metabolic” are ...
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Pneumococcal disease in childhood

Hospital Medicine, 2001
Streptococcus pneumoniae is the most common cause of serious bacterial infections in children worldwide. Problems with antibiotic resistance have lead to changes in antibiotic policies for children with possible pneumococcal disease. Demonstration of the efficacy of a pneumococcal conjugate vaccine has lead to consideration of its inclusion in routine ...
P V, Mohan, P T, Heath
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