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Maternal nutrition during pregnancy is an important determinant of the later health of the offspring. The aim here was to evaluate the effects of maternal dietary intake and dietary counselling in providing a favourable ...

Preterm birth complications represent a leading cause of mortality in children under five years old. To mitigate these complications, strategies such as the use of donor human milk, fortification with human milk fortifiers ...

Acute symptoms are required for the diagnosis of acute otitis media (AOM) and they guide the management together with the laterality of AOM. However, symptoms are variable in young children and not diagnostic with AOM. We ...

According to the Official Statistics of Finland, approximately 75% of the Finnish population become parents. At the same time, the grave impact of poor sleep on the health and wellbeing of an individual has been shown in ...

Abstract Early interaction and closeness with a caregiver are important for the development of newborn infants. Postpartum separation between parent and newborn is still common in the hospital care of premature babies. ...

Pneumonia is an important cause of morbidity and hospitalization in children worldwide. Since the development of nucleic acid amplification techniques, rhinovirus (RV) is frequently detected in community-acquired pneumonia ...

Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is the leading cause of lower respiratory tract infections in children worldwide, with nearly all children infected by the age of three. Although the majority of cases are managed in ...