Prevalence of anaemia and associated factors among infants under 6 months in rural China.

Objective: To examine Hb level and anaemia status among infants under 6 months of age in rural China.

Design: A cross-sectional survey collected data among infants under 6 months and their primary caregivers in Sichuan, China. Anaemia was defined using both the WHO and China Pediatrics Association thresholds.

Duodenal obstruction due to missed pre-duodenal portal vein in a patient with intestinal malrotation.

Pre-duodenal portal vein (PDPV) is a rare anomaly and a rare cause of duodenal obstruction (DO), with only a few cases reported in the literature. We present an infant whose bilious vomiting persisted despite having Ladd's procedure for intestinal malrotation due to a missed diagnosis of DO from PDPV that was found at re-exploration. The patient was diagnosed with malrotation and had Ladd's procedure at 12 weeks of age, but bilious vomiting persisted post-operatively.

Contribution of Meliaceous plants in furnishing lead compounds for antiplasmodial and insecticidal drug development.

Ethnopharmacological Relevance: Malaria remains one of the greatest threats to human life especially in the tropical and sub-tropical regions where it claims hundreds of thousands of lives of young children every year. Meliaceae represent a large family of trees and shrubs, which are widely used in African traditional medicine for the treatment of several ailments including fever due to malaria. The in vitro and in vivo antiplasmodial as well as insecticidal investigations of their extracts or isolated compounds have led to promising results but to the best of our knowledge, no specific review on the traditional uses, phytochemistry of the antiplasmodial, insecticidal and cytotoxic lead compounds and extracts of Meliaceae plants has been compiled.