Changing contexts of child health: an assessment of unmet physical, psychological and social needs of children with common chronic childhood illness.

Background: We assessed the biopsychosocial needs and key health drivers among children living with a common chronic illness, as baseline for a cluster randomised controlled trial of a child health system strengthening intervention.

Methods: Cross-sectional data were analysed from a large population sample of children from South London with asthma, eczema or constipation, as exemplar tracer conditions of a new integrated care service. Descriptive and regression analyses, accounting for sociodemographic factors, investigated social needs, psychosocial outcomes and quality of life associated with poor symptom control.

Presenting symptoms of glioma in adults.

Objective: Studies on the presenting symptoms of glioma in adults in the age of readily available MRI imaging are scarce. This study investigates presenting symptoms of glioma and assesses the correlations of the presenting symptoms with patient age and histopathological class of the tumor.

Materials And Methods: A retrospective review of the medical records of histologically verified glioma patients treated in Turku University Hospital, during 2006-2010, was conducted.

Chemical and bacteriological characteristics of Pichtogalo Chanion cheese and mesophilic starter cultures for its production.

Sixty-two samples of Pichtogalo Chanion cheese traditionally produced in Crete, a few (3 to 6) days old, were analyzed for some chemical and bacteriological characteristics. The results of physicochemical analyses were as follows: (1) moisture content 61.63% (standard deviation 4.

[Cervical metastasis of choriocarcinoma].

Neck metastatic adenopathy involves to set off a protocol aiming to specify the growth's origin. Complete ENT-examination facing a hard, movable, laterocervical lump is compulsory. Lacking the primary next comes fine needle biopsy and if it's not clear enough a cervicotomy must be performed.