Publications

Morbidity and school absence caused by asthma and wheezing illness.

A survey in the London Borough of Croydon was conducted among an entire school cohort, aged about 9 years, to describe the current morbidity from wheezing illness, its relation ...

Origins and Evolution of Behavior Disorders: From Infancy to Early Adult Life

Beginning in 1956, Stella Chess and Alexander Thomas tracked the lives of 133 children from infancy to young adulthood, examining in detail their psychological development over ...

Lung function in white children aged 4 to 19 years: II--Single breath analysis and plethysmography.

Male puberty leads to profound changes in pulmonary function mostly related to thoracic size, an effect not observed in females.

A six-minute walk test for assessing exercise tolerance in severely ill children

Early Intervention and Mediating Processes in Cognitive Performance of Children of Low-Income African American Families

Scope, quality, and inclusivity of clinical guidelines produced early in the covid-19 pandemic: rapid review

Abstract Objective To appraise the availability, quality, and inclusivity of clinical guidelines produced in the early stage of the coronavirus disease 2019 (covid-19) pandemic....

SARS in Hospital Emergency Room

Thirty-one cases of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) occurred after exposure in the emergency room at the National Taiwan University Hospital. The index patient was link...

A qualitative investigation into the levers and barriers to weight loss in children: opinions of obese children

This study identifies the important levers and barriers experienced by obese children in their attempt to lose weight. Dealing with these levers and barriers while acknowledging...

Quantitative studies of autotransplantation of human cancer.Preliminary report

The many weak instruments problem and Mendelian randomization

Instrumental variable estimates of causal effects can be biased when using many instruments that are only weakly associated with the exposure. We describe several techniques to ...

A Multidisciplinary Community Hospital Program for Early and Rapid Resuscitation of Shock in Nontrauma Patients

Television: Its Impact on School Children

Journal Article Television: Its Impact on School Children Get access ELEANOR E. MACCOBY ELEANOR E. MACCOBY The author is a lecturer in the Department of Social Relations and a r...