Psychiatric disorders in children at one year after the tsunami disaster in Thailand.

Background: The tsunami that struck Thailand on 26th December 2004 was the greatest natural disaster in the country's history. It left in its wake unprecedented damage and destruction. Children suffered the loss of parents or guardians, and survivors were left to cope with psychological trauma of the disaster

Objective: To assess the psychiatric disorders in tsunami victim children at one year after the event.

Thyrotropin screening for congenital hypothyroidism in Queen Sirikit National Institute of Child Health, Thailand (during year 1995-2000).

Objectives: To detect newborns with congenital hypothyroidism (CH) by TSH screening and to treat the affected infants as early as possible. To find the incidence of CH in neonates born at Rajavithi Hospital from 1995 to 2000. The effects of thyroid pathology, ages at the initiation of treatment, associated conditions, and severity of CH on the intellectual outcome of the patients were also analyzed.