Up to 1.3 million children from the former Soviet Union (fSU) and Eastern Europe have been placed in institutional care worldwide. With the hope of ensuring the child's health in the immediate post-adoption period, these children are known to receive many injections of vaccines, vitamins, and medications, many unnecessary and often administered with unsafe technique.
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Neurofibromatosis type 1 is a genetic disorder characterized by variable phenotypic manifestations. The diagnostic criteria, 25 established in 1987, are broad to encompass these pleiotropic findings. Included are the specific osseous manifestations of 26 sphenoid dysplasia and dysplasia or thinning of the cortex of long bones.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDovitinib (TKI258) is a multi-targeted receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitor currently under clinical trials for a wide variety of cancers. Well-known side effects include nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and fatigue. To date, there have only been only two reported cases with skin manifestations as a side effect.
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