Standardizing visual display of gastrointestinal pathology results for improved clinical interpretation.

Objectives: Pathology is an essential component of disease diagnosis and management in pediatric gastroenterology. Pathology reports have not been standardized in some areas of pediatric gastrointestinal pathology and pathology reporting varies. Development of electronic medical record (EMR) pathology synoptic report templates (PSRT) enables pathology data collection in a specific format and can help standardize pathology reporting.

Teaching psychiatry to large groups in society.

Background: There is a need to educate a range of professionals in caring for individuals with long-term mental disability who reside within our communities. Empathy alone is insufficient. The Kognus 4-Step Education Program was developed to achieve this goal.

Growth hormone treatment improves vitality and behavioural issues in children with Prader-Willi syndrome.

Aim: Prader-Willi syndrome is a neurogenetic disorder, with characteristics such as obesity, short stature, muscular weakness, intellectual deficiencies and deviant social behaviour. This study evaluated whether growth hormone treatment of children with Prader-Willi syndrome resulted in possible and lasting effects on their cognition and behaviour.

Methods: We randomised six girls and 13 boys to either a treatment group or a control group.

Growth hormone treatment in Aarskog syndrome: analysis of the KIGS (Pharmacia International Growth Database) data.

Aarskog syndrome is an X-linked disorder characterized by faciogenital dysplasia and short stature. The present study set out to determine the effect of growth hormone (GH) therapy in patients with Aarskog syndrome enrolled in KIGS--the Pharmacia International Growth Database. Twenty-one patients (20 males) were evaluated.