Introduction: Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis is a rare inflammatory demyelinating disease characterized by acute onset polyfocal neurological deficits associated with encephalopathy. It commonly presents with fever, ...

OBJECTIVE: To describe the prevalence and factors associated with undernutrition in children aged 6-59 months in a rural area of Sri Lanka. METHOD: A community-based, cross-sectional study was carried out among children ...

Leprosy is a common skin disease in Sri Lanka which is being increasingly diagnosed due to the existing successful public health programme. Dapsone is a drug which holds unique pharmacological properties where it serves ...

Sri Lanka's civil war and the tsunami in 2004 had enormous psychological impacts on the country's children. Tackling these issues has been difficult due to the lack of specialists in child and adolescent psychiatry. The ...

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BAKGROUND: Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) in children differs from adults in that children do not show ego dystonicity, rarely have pure obsessions and commonly have pure compulsions with hidden obsessions. Comorbid ...

INTRODUCTION: Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder, in which medical disorders are known to occur higher than in the general paediatric population. This may indicate either that the neurodevelopmental ...

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BACKGROUND: It is estimated that almost a half of all of people living in developing countries today are infected with roundworms, hookworms, or whip worms or combinations of these types of intestinal nematode worms. They ...

PURPOSE OF THE REVIEW: This article reviews recent developments in the instrumental assessment of swallowing in children with a specific focus on research published between January 2017 and June 2018. RECENT FINDINGS: ...