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In Israel there is preliminary work. I have seen over 60 children and the prelimanry results look promising

I am interested in the role of cannabidinoids in rebalancing communication between the DMN and Executive systems. There is prelimanrtu literature that this is one role of cannbidinoids and that this communication is flawed in autistic children. There is a ceratin clinmical appeal to this approach. 

I would like to consider collaboartion in fMRI studies before and after cannabis, perhaps fMRI as a tool to optimize dose and types of extracts, perhaps also to differentiate gender and types of autism.

Anyone out there interested?

I’m Azade Riyahi, PhD candidate in occupational therapy at Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. I, along with other members of the research team named Dr. Malahat Akbarfahimi, Dr. Afsoon Hassani Mehraban, Dr. Mehdi Rassafiani, intend to develop and validate a functional classification system for toileting function in children and adolescents with cerebral palsy. This system is in line with previous similar classification systems including Gross Motor Function Classification System (GMFCS), Manual Ability Classification System (MACS), Eating and Drinking Ability Classification System (EDACS), Communication Function Classification System (CFCS) and Visual Function Classification System (VFCS).

Your participation in this research will surely help to improve the newly developed classification system and shed light on this important function.

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Scientists have raised serious concerns about the widespread use of one of the world's most common painkillers after studies showing that codeine may be unsafe, ineffective and potentially addictive for the millions of people who take it regularly.

The Government's independent watchdog on the safety of medicines has withdrawn codeine-containing cough mixtures for children after hard-hitting criticism by two Canadian experts suggesting that the drug should be phased out in painkillers meant for either children or adults.

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) issued its warning about cough medicines containing codeine after receiving fresh advice from its committee of independent experts on the Commission on Human Medicines. The Independent has learnt that the commission had advance notice of a forthcoming editorial in a Canadian medical journal denouncing the widespread use of codeine in painkillers, especially for children.

So what is your view regarding use of codeine?

I am writing to request a correction regarding the affiliation of one of my co-authors, Donald Ho. Currently, the author's profile incorrectly lists an affiliation with The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong. This is a case of mistaken identity, as the Donald Ho in question is actually a dental school student at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Please remove the incorrect profile and update the affiliation to accurately reflect his current status as my student at UAB.

From my published 3 articles: please correct all.

1. Establishment of quantitative indicators for an efficient treatment on masticatory muscle pain. December 2022 · Clinical and Experimental Dental Research,

2. Assessment of Children’s Pain Expression and Behavior Using Audio-visual Distraction: A Randomized Controlled Study, May 2024, DOI:10.9734/bpi/mria/v4/517, In book: Medical Research and Its Applications Vol. 4

3. Evaluation of children's pain expression and behavior using audio visual distraction

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Sincerely,

Kyounga Cheon

Thanks to humanitarian organizations that offer "free cares" otherwise impossible in their native countries, lots of children's life are saved.

No discussion that these organizations are great and do excellent work.

But, on the other hand, if they had a choice how many parents would give away their child without being with her or him? Some of these sick children stay in a foreign countries without parents for weeks for months before going back home.

Others die in a foreign hospital far away home without having parents with them.

How "ethical is that"? Who should claim "Children's' Rights" who clearly stipulate that a child has the right to have at least one of his parent when at the hospital?

What about "parents right"? Does a parent not have the right to be with his child when hospitalized?

Do you know of any studies on this subject? I've seen a number of cases in my practice but no doctors, surgeons or anaesthesiologists want to talk about it. I've only found information in work by traumatologists like Dr Robert C. Scaer who himself was traumatised as a child by medical procedures. He associates being held down as a very young child - unable to fight or flee, only to freeze - with torture.

Thanks in advance for any leads to studies on this subject.

There are some known methods to measure/estimate the complexity of a signal both in frequency domain and time domain. Are there any criteria to assess the effectiveness of such methods to study human biomechanics? I am particularly interested in complexity assessment of involuntary movements (dyskinesia) in Parkinson's disease patients. 

Systems thinking is a holistic approach to analysis that focuses on the way that a system's constituent parts interrelate and how systems work over time and within the context of larger systems. The systems thinking approach contrasts with traditional analysis, which studies systems by breaking them down into their separate elements. Systems thinking can be used in any area of research and has been applied to the study of medical, environmental, political, economic, human resources, and educational systems, among many others.

According to systems thinking, system behavior results from the effects of reinforcing and balancing processes. A reinforcing process leads to the increase of some system component. If reinforcement is unchecked by a balancing process, it eventually leads to collapse. A balancing process is one that tends to maintain equilibrium in a particular system.

Attention to feedback is an essential component of system thinking. For example, in project management, prevailing wisdom may prescribe the addition of workers to a project that is lagging. However, in practice, that tactic might have actually slowed development in the past. Attention to that relevant feedback can allow management to look for other solutions rather than wasting resources on an approach that has been demonstrated to be counterproductive.

Systems thinking uses computer simulation and a variety of diagrams and graphs to model, illustrate, and predict system behavior. Among the systems thinking tools are: the behavior over time (BOT) graph, which indicates the actions of one or more variables over a period of time; the causal loop diagram (CLD), which illustrates the relationships between system elements; the management flight simulator, which uses an interactive program to simulate the effects of management decisions; and the simulation model, which simulates the interaction of system elements over time.

Systems thinking originated in 1956, when Professor Jay Forrester founded the Systems Dynamic Group at MIT's Sloan School of Management.

I am currently looking for a low cost methodology for studying common helminths in children living in urban slums in the Philippines. Me and my partner are planning to conduct the study as our undergrad thesis. We also plan to give the results of our diagnoses to the participants of our study, so they may take proper medical action. We would appreciate any help on the design of our methodology.

Conducting a prospective audit for children admitted in a health facility who died related to severe malnutrition.