Background: Malnutrition is a public health concern due to its negative impact on human performance, growth, and development, especially in children. The preschool period is the critical stage of acti

Background: The spectrum of eye disease experienced by a population can be termed ‘ocular morbidity’. There is limited information about the prevalence of ocular morbidity among primary school childre

Background:Opportunistic infections are the most common cause of death among children living with Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. They take advantage of the weakened

Introduction: Severe acute malnutrition (SAM) remains a major public health problem and an important cause of morbidity and mortality among children in resource-limited settings. Cutaneous and mucosal

Background: Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) remains a major cause of childhood morbidity and mortality in low- and middle-income countries, including India. Hospitalized children with SAM often presen

Objective: Sleep disorders are a common concern in Paediatric patients with epilepsy. The aim of this study was to evaluate sleep pattern in children in age group 1-18 years with epilepsy. Secondary o

Objectives: 1. To assess the knowledge and attitude among parents regarding fever in under five years children. 2. To assess the practice among parents in managing fever in under five years children.

Background: In Kenya, more than a quarter of children under the age of five, or two million children, have malnutrition, which commonly presents in the form of stunting, the most frequent form of unde

Background: Childhood immunization remains one of the most effective and cost-efficient public health interventions for preventing vaccine-preventable diseases and reducing under-five mortality. Howev

Dengue fever is an arboviral illness spread by mosquitoes and is now a major public health issue on a global scale. Unfortunately, only a few studies have documented unusual clinical characteristics o

Objective: To assess the real-world effectiveness and safety of vitamin D3 supplementation in children. Design: A retrospective, multicentre, observational real-world evidence study. Subjects/Patients

Background: Children are physiologically vulnerable to heat, yet evidence on school- and classroom-level heat exposure and preparedness in urban India is limited. We estimated heat-related symptom pre

Objective: To assess the effectiveness of a structured health education intervention on caregivers’ knowledge and home management practices regarding childhood diarrhoea in South Andaman Design: Commu

Background: Preoperative anxiety is a common phenomenon among paediatric surgical patients and their parents. Excessive anxiety may adversely affect anaesthetic induction, postoperative pain, recovery

Background: Immature platelet fraction (IPF) represents the automated measurement of reticulated platelets in peripheral blood and reflects bone marrow platelet production. It has emerged as a useful