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Paediatrics and Child Health: Recent submissions

  • The child with poor weight gain 
    Wittenberg, Dankwart F. (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2007-04)
    Failure to gain weight in a normal way relates to problems of food intake, uptake and utilisation. Practically speaking, the problem is one of two main categories: insufficient food intake or an organic condition leading ...
  • Equal opportunities for children with hearing loss by means of early identification 
    Swanepoel, De Wet; Delport, Suzanne D.; Swart, Johannes G. (Medpharm Publishers, 2007-01)
  • Gastroenteritis in young children 
    Wittenberg, Dankwart F. (Health and Medical Publishing Group, 2007-06)
    Acute diarrhoea is due to intestinal infection. The patient ingests a pathogen that has contaminated water, food, drink, toys or anything that can be placed in the mouth. An inadequate and unsafe water supply and poor ...
  • Immunotactoid glomerulonephritis in a child with HIV infection : a case report 
    Van Biljon, Gertruida; Louw, Melanie; Dreyer, Leonora (Springer, 2007-09)
    Renal disease is a common complication of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in adults. In children, however, HIV pathology of the gastrointestinal and respiratory tracts predominates, whereas renal disease is ...
  • Understanding mild asthma / episodic asthma in children 
    Green, Robin J. (Medpharm Publications, 2007-04)
    Asthma may be intermittent or persistent and persistent asthma may be mild, moderate, or severe. Many factors influence asthma severity, both from day-to-day and from month-to-month. In individual patients, asthma severity ...
  • Asthma - is survival good enough? 
    Green, Robin J.; Zar, Heather J.; Bateman, E.D. (South African Medical Association, 2007-03)
    Advances in asthma management, particularly the introduction of controller medication of which inhaled corticosteroids are the most important, has resulted in a steady decline in asthma mortality in most countries. This ...
  • Symptomatic treatment of upper respiratory tract symptoms in children 
    Green, Robin J. (2006-05)
    Most upper respiratory tract infections are viral and treatment of a viral URTI is symptomatic. Today, with the emergence of antimicrobial resitance, antibiotics must be thought of as contra-indicated. Acute bacterial ...
  • Cost-effectiveness of asthma therapy 
    Green, Robin J. (Medpharm Publications, 2006-03)
    An important management strategy in asthma is the application of a cost-effectiveness review to the selected management principles. Efficacy, in the clinical trial setting, is the first determinant of effectiveness. ...
  • Asthma control – is there a problem? 
    Green, Robin J. (Medpharm Publications, 2006-05)