Family Health
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Acute malnutrition is common in Malawian patients with a Wilms tumour: A role for peanut butter.

13 Dec 2009 BACKGROUND: Children with cancer in resource limited countries are often malnourished at diagnosis. Acute malnutrition is associated with more infectious complications and an increased risk of morbidity and mortality in major surgery. METHODS: All ... Read more...

Familial small cell carcinoma of the ovary.

13 Dec 2009 Ovarian tumors have a low incidence in childhood, accounting for 1% of malignancies within the ages of 0-17 years. Small cell carcinoma of the ovary is a rare histology and historically has a poor prognosis. We report a case of an 11-year-old female ... Read more...

Family, demographic and illness-related determinants of HRQL in children with brain tumours in the first year after diagnosis.

29 Nov 2009 AIMS: To evaluate the relationship between parent- and child-report Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQL) and demographic, tumour and family variables in children with a brain tumour in the first year after diagnosis and to identify determinants of ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Family Health'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Acute malnutrition is common in Malawian patients with a Wilms tumour: A role for peanut butter. 13 Dec 2009
• Familial small cell carcinoma of the ovary. 13 Dec 2009
• Family, demographic and illness-related determinants of HRQL in children with brain tumours in the first year after diagnosis. 29 Nov 2009
• Factors affecting the delivery of family-centered care in pediatric oncology. 29 Nov 2009
• Screening for familial pancreatic cancer: is doing something better than doing nothing? 29 Sep 2009
• Language features in a mother and daughter of a chromosome 7;13 translocation involving FOXP2. 29 Sep 2009
• OFD1 is mutated in X-linked Joubert syndrome and interacts with LCA5-encoded lebercilin. 29 Sep 2009
• Integration of genomic and genetic approaches implicates IREB2 as a COPD susceptibility gene. 29 Sep 2009
• [Estimation of individual breast cancer risk: relevance and limits of risk estimation models] 29 Sep 2009
• Expressed emotion in wives of myocardial infarction patients: an exploratory feasibility study. 29 Sep 2009
• Toxic sequelae of childhood sexual abuse. 29 Sep 2009
• Estimation of absolute risk for prostate cancer using genetic markers and family history. 29 Sep 2009
• Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy 25 years after seizure onset: a population-based study. 27 Sep 2009
• The prenatal visit. 26 Sep 2009
• PPIB mutations cause severe osteogenesis imperfecta. 22 Sep 2009
• Updated recommendations from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) for use of hepatitis A vaccine in close contacts of newly arriving international adoptees. 16 Sep 2009
• Familial aggregation of suicide explained by cluster B traits: a three-group family study of suicide controlling for major depressive disorder. 13 Sep 2009
• Another gene for ALS: mutations in sporadic cases and the rare variant hypothesis. 7 Sep 2009
• Preoperative risk assessment for bleeding and thromboembolism. Sep 2009
• Intra-familial incidence and characteristics of hot water epilepsy. 30 Aug 2009

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Technical information about 'Family Health'

Definition: The health status of the family as a unit including the impact of the health of one member of the family on the family as a unit and on individual family members; also, the impact of family organization or disorganization on the health status of its members.

Descriptor UI: D005192

Alternative terms: Family Health; Health, Family;

Allowable Qualifiers: ethnology;

Tree Number: N01.400.300;

History Note: 91(79); was see under FAMILY 1979-90

Technical Notes: health status of family as a unit & impact on individual members; /ethnol permitted