Background: Oral health problems are among the most common health problems in the world affecting 60-90% of children in the world. Poor oral health, particularly in children with chronic diseases is a major cause of morbidity ...

Introduction; Neural tube defects are a group of congenital defects of the central nervous system resulting from failure of the neural tube to close during the first few weeks of fetal development.These defects have a ...

BACK GROUND: Despite the substantial reductions in the number of deaths observed in recent decades, globally around 10 million children still die every year before reaching their fifth birthday. In Ethiopia, almost half ...

Background: Long term complications of type 1 diabetes mellitus are devastating for individuals and families and impose a considerable burden to health care systems. Maintaining strict glycaemic control in type 1 diabetics ...

Back ground; Sever acute malnutrition (SAM) and visceral leishmaniasis (VL) are important public health problems which affect millions of people worldwide. Both are major problems of the pediatric population in developing ...

Background: Unarguably hypertension is a major contributor to morbidity and mortality in adults not to mention the huge health care cost it poses to the economy. It is thought that adult hypertension might have its origin ...

Background: Weight at birth is a good indicator of the newborn’s chance for survival, growth and development, as well as long term health and psychosocial development. Low birth weight newborns are at a significantly ...

Introduction: Malnutrition is one of the leading problems in developing countries with basic stance for majority of common childhood problems. The clinical forms that are prominent and are associated with mortality are ...

Background. Because of rapid population growth, many countries now have very large cohorts of young people. Despite the population health importance of early child feeding practices, little work has explored the ...

BACKGROUND: Objective Structured Clinical Examination is one of several methods of assessing the clinical competence of medical students. Though popular in most medical schools globally, its use in Ethiopian medical schools ...