This is a collection of medical and allied health literature that I read. I am sharing links to them for the benefit of disseminating the knowledge among medical and allied health service providers in Maldives.Tumblr (3.0; @niyafsjournalwatch)http://niyafsjournalwatch.tumblr.com/<a href="http://blogs.bmj.com/adc-archimedes/2009/10/11/q-pneumothorices-and-white-rabbits/">Q: Pneumothorices and white rabbits?</a>: <p><img class="alignright" style="float: right" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3336/3303413884_0dc275bfb7_t.jpg" alt="Rabbit" width="66" height="100"/>Not just Alice in Wonderland, it seems, but a bunch of our colleagues are chasing fluffy-tailed bunnies in their treatment of pneumothorax. Oxygen - in high concentrations - is used by some…</p>http://niyafsjournalwatch.tumblr.com/post/210453433http://niyafsjournalwatch.tumblr.com/post/210453433Sun, 11 Oct 2009 18:26:29 -0400<a href="http://ep.bmj.com/cgi/content/short/94/5/157?rss=1">[Learning and teaching] Minding the gap: training in adolescent medicine when formal training programmes are not available</a>http://niyafsjournalwatch.tumblr.com/post/193716961http://niyafsjournalwatch.tumblr.com/post/193716961Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:48:38 -0400<a href="http://ep.bmj.com/cgi/content/short/94/5/151?rss=1">[Pharmacy update] New advances in the management of juvenile idiopathic arthritis--2: The era of biologicals</a>http://niyafsjournalwatch.tumblr.com/post/193716908http://niyafsjournalwatch.tumblr.com/post/193716908Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:48:32 -0400<a href="http://ep.bmj.com/cgi/content/short/94/5/144?rss=1">[Pharmacy update] New advances in the management of juvenile idiopathic arthritis--1: Non-biological therapy</a>http://niyafsjournalwatch.tumblr.com/post/193716892http://niyafsjournalwatch.tumblr.com/post/193716892Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:48:31 -0400<a href="http://ep.bmj.com/cgi/content/short/94/5/138?rss=1">[Problem solving in clinical practice] Investigating chronic meningitis</a>http://niyafsjournalwatch.tumblr.com/post/193716873http://niyafsjournalwatch.tumblr.com/post/193716873Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:48:28 -0400<a href="http://ep.bmj.com/cgi/content/short/94/5/129?rss=1">[Best practice] Investigation and management of a child who is immunocompromised and neutropoenic with pulmonary infiltrates</a>http://niyafsjournalwatch.tumblr.com/post/193716804http://niyafsjournalwatch.tumblr.com/post/193716804Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:48:22 -0400<a href="http://adc.bmj.com/cgi/content/short/94/10/821-b?rss=1">[PostScript] Pediatric allergy, asthma and immunology</a>http://niyafsjournalwatch.tumblr.com/post/193644362http://niyafsjournalwatch.tumblr.com/post/193644362Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:58:07 -0400<a href="http://adc.bmj.com/cgi/content/short/94/10/822?rss=1">[Miscellanea] Lucina</a>http://niyafsjournalwatch.tumblr.com/post/193644365http://niyafsjournalwatch.tumblr.com/post/193644365Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:58:07 -0400<a href="http://adc.bmj.com/cgi/content/short/94/10/812?rss=1">[Reviews] Should we aspire to screen preschool children for conduct disorder?</a>: <p>Life-course persistent conduct disorder is a major public health problem with implications for individual health and for society at large. Recent evidence has shown that treatment can be…</p>http://niyafsjournalwatch.tumblr.com/post/193644343http://niyafsjournalwatch.tumblr.com/post/193644343Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:58:06 -0400<a href="http://adc.bmj.com/cgi/content/short/94/10/806?rss=1">[Reviews] Child health and living at high altitude</a>: <p>The health of children born and living at high altitude is shaped not only by the low-oxygen environment, but also by population ancestry and sociocultural determinants. High altitude and the…</p>http://niyafsjournalwatch.tumblr.com/post/193644338http://niyafsjournalwatch.tumblr.com/post/193644338Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:58:06 -0400<a href="http://adc.bmj.com/cgi/content/short/94/10/817?rss=1">[Short report] Making choices: why parents present to the emergency department for non-urgent care</a>: <sec><st>Objectives:</st><p>This study aims to provide a better understanding of the motivations and actions of parents of children with non-urgent injury or illness who attend the emergency department at a…</p></sec>http://niyafsjournalwatch.tumblr.com/post/193644354http://niyafsjournalwatch.tumblr.com/post/193644354Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:58:06 -0400<a href="http://adc.bmj.com/cgi/content/short/94/10/816?rss=1">[Miscellanea] CT images of Hirschsprung's associated enterocolitis: a rare finding</a>http://niyafsjournalwatch.tumblr.com/post/193644349http://niyafsjournalwatch.tumblr.com/post/193644349Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:58:06 -0400<a href="http://adc.bmj.com/cgi/content/short/94/10/821-a?rss=1">[PostScript] Concise paediatrics</a>http://niyafsjournalwatch.tumblr.com/post/193644357http://niyafsjournalwatch.tumblr.com/post/193644357Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:58:06 -0400<a href="http://adc.bmj.com/cgi/content/short/94/10/795?rss=1">[Original articles] Trends in overweight and obesity prevalence in Dutch, Turkish, Moroccan and Surinamese South Asian children in the Netherlands</a>: <sec><st>Objective:</st><p>To determine trends in the prevalence of overweight and obesity in children in The Hague (the Netherlands) from 1999 through 2007.</p> </sec><sec><st>Design:</st><p>Population-based study of a series of…</p></sec>http://niyafsjournalwatch.tumblr.com/post/193644326http://niyafsjournalwatch.tumblr.com/post/193644326Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:58:05 -0400<a href="http://adc.bmj.com/cgi/content/short/94/10/790?rss=1">[Original articles] Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis: a case series including thrombolysis</a>: <sec><st>Background:</st><p>Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST) in children is associated with a high incidence of serious morbidity and mortality. The presenting features are variable. It can be…</p></sec>http://niyafsjournalwatch.tumblr.com/post/193644323http://niyafsjournalwatch.tumblr.com/post/193644323Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:58:05 -0400<a href="http://adc.bmj.com/cgi/content/short/94/10/801?rss=1">[Original articles] A protective effect of breastfeeding on the progression of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease</a>: <sec><st>Objective:</st><p>Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a spectrum of liver disease characterised by accumulation of large-droplet fat in hepatocytes with possible progression to inflammation and…</p></sec>http://niyafsjournalwatch.tumblr.com/post/193644336http://niyafsjournalwatch.tumblr.com/post/193644336Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:58:05 -0400<a href="http://adc.bmj.com/cgi/content/short/94/10/768?rss=1">[Original articles] Predicting adult metabolic syndrome from childhood body mass index: follow-up of the New Delhi birth cohort</a>: <sec><st>Objectives:</st><p>To assess whether serial measurements of childhood body mass index (BMI) give clinically useful predictions of the risk of developing adult metabolic syndrome and impaired glucose…</p></sec>http://niyafsjournalwatch.tumblr.com/post/193644310http://niyafsjournalwatch.tumblr.com/post/193644310Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:58:04 -0400<a href="http://adc.bmj.com/cgi/content/short/94/10/775?rss=1">[Original articles] Violence against women and the risk of fetal and early childhood growth impairment: a cohort study in rural Bangladesh</a>: <sec><st>Objective:</st><p>To assess whether different forms of family violence against women were associated with impaired size at birth and early childhood growth.</p> </sec><sec><st>Methods:</st><p>A substudy embedded into a…</p></sec>http://niyafsjournalwatch.tumblr.com/post/193644312http://niyafsjournalwatch.tumblr.com/post/193644312Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:58:04 -0400<a href="http://adc.bmj.com/cgi/content/short/94/10/780?rss=1">[Original articles] The importance of nurse-led home visits in the assessment of children with problematic asthma</a>: <sec><st>Objective:</st><p>To evaluate and identify potentially modifiable factors in children with problematic asthma by a nurse-led assessment and home visit.</p> </sec><sec><st>Design:</st><p>Observational cohort study.</p> </sec><sec><st>Setting:</st><p>A…</p></sec>http://niyafsjournalwatch.tumblr.com/post/193644316http://niyafsjournalwatch.tumblr.com/post/193644316Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:58:04 -0400<a href="http://adc.bmj.com/cgi/content/short/94/10/785?rss=1">[Original articles] Risk factors for respiratory syncytial virus hospitalisation in children with heart disease</a>: <sec><st>Objective:</st><p>To assess the risk and risk factors for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) hospitalisation and determinants of the severity of RSV disease in children with heart disease.</p> </sec><sec><st>Methods:</st><p>By…</p></sec>http://niyafsjournalwatch.tumblr.com/post/193644320http://niyafsjournalwatch.tumblr.com/post/193644320Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:58:04 -0400