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On the Mother-Child Website...

The www.mother-child.org website has just undergone an extensive revision in an effort to provide a clear, concise image of our basic premises and purpose. We believe that these revisions will improve your access to the site’s facilities thereby helping you to achieve your objectives in research. So it’s a good time for us to question our own motives and methods in developing and promoting this website.

Specifically, we need your responses to the following questions:

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A COUPLE OF FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES

GLOBAL HEALTH LEADERSHIP AWARDS: CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

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Arsenic Contamination of Drinking Water

Arsenic contamination of the drinking water used by millions of people in Asia and elsewhere in the Developing World presents a major potential public health crisis.

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How might research be mobilized to curb the costly global epidemic of obesity

In developing countries where Western influence has promoted a lifestyle of little physical activity and high calorie foods, cases of obesity have tripled in the past 20 years.Hassan P et al.

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CHILD DEVELOPMENT IN LOW INCOME COUNTRIES - A RESEARCH CHALLENGE

A series of 3 papers on child development in developing countries indicate that developmental potential is being lost in more than 200 million children in low income countries1,2,3.

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POSTNATAL CARE: An obvious global health priority

A policy brief has been disseminated recently by the Population Reference Bureau in Washington (www.prb.org).

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Vaccination Schedules for Pre-Term Infants

Bonhoeffer et al (Arch Dis Childh 91:929-935, 2006) suggest that vaccinations scheduled at 2, 3 and 4 months after birth for pre

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Does Breast Feeding Make you Smarter?

In an extensive metaanalysis published in the BMJ (333:945-948, 2006) Der et al provide c

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PRE TERM BIRTH AND PERIODONTAL DISEASE

Preterm birth occurring before 37 weeks gestation is associ

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