The Power of Play: A Pediatric Role in Enhancing Development in Young Children

Children need to develop a variety of skill sets to optimize their development and manage toxic stress. Research demonstrates that developmentally appropriate play with parents and peers is a singular opportunity to promote the social-emotional, cognitive, language, and self-regulation skills that build executive function and a prosocial brain. Furthermore, play supports the formation of the safe, stable, and nurturing relationships with all caregivers that children need to thrive

Maude Abbott and the origin and mysterious disappearance of the Canadian Medical War Museum

From the mid-1960s a new breed of scientific instrument curators emerged in the United Kingdom. This small community of practice developed in parallel to but Context.—In the early 1900s, it was common practice to retain, prepare, and display instructive pathologic specimens to teach pathology to medical trainees and practitioners; these collections were called medical museums. Maude Abbott established her reputation by developing expertise in all aspects of medical museum work. She was afounder of the International Association of Medical Museums (later renamed the International Academy of Pathology) and became an internationally renowned expert on congenital heart disease. Her involvement in the Canadian Medical War Museum (CMWM) is less well known. Objective.—To explore Abbott’s role in the development of the CMWM during and after World War I and to trace its history. Design.—Available primary and secondary historical sources were reviewed. Results.—Instructive pathologic specimens derived from Canadian soldiers dying during World War I were shipped to the Royal College of Surgeons in London, which served as a clearinghouse for museum specimens from Dominion forces. The Canadian specimens were repatriated to Canada, prepared by Abbott, and displayed at several medical meetings. Abbott, because she was a woman, could not enlist and so she reported to a series of enlisted physicians with no expertise in museology. Plans for a permanent CMWM building in Ottawa eventually failed and Abbott maintained the collection at McGill (Montreal, Quebec, Canada) until her death in 1940. We trace the CMWM after her death. Conclusions.—Sadly, after Abbott had meticulously prepared these precious teaching specimens so that their previous owners’ ultimate sacrifice would continue to help their military brethren, the relics were bureaucratically lost

Sequence variants in oxytocin pathway genes and preterm birth: a candidate gene association study

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Technical Market Indicators: An Overview

The purpose of this study is to review the evidence in the scientiic literature on technical analysis applications in financial markets. In the empirical literature are the irst studies to analyze the usefulness of technical analysis, more recent studies applied to the international market and finally, studies developed for the Colombian market. Some of these studies provide important implications for market eficiency.El propósito de este estudio es revisar las evidencias en la literatura cientíica sobre las aplicaciones del análisis técnico en los mercados financieros. En la literatura empírica se encuentran los primeros estudios que analizan la utilidad del análisis técnico, estudios más recientes aplicados al mercado internacional, y por último, estudios desarrollados para el mercado colombiano. Algunos de estos estudios proporcionan implicaciones importantes sobre la eiciencia del mercado.Le but de cette étude est d’examiner les éléments de preuve dans la littérature scientiique sur les applications d’analyse technique des marchés financiers. Dans la littérature empirique sont les premières études pour analyser l’utilité de l’analyse technique, des études plus récentes appliquées sur le marché international et, enin, les études développées pour le marché colombien. Certaines de ces études fournissent des implications importantes pour l’eficacité du marché.O objetivo deste estudo é revisar as evidências na literatura cientíica sobre a aplicação da análise técnica nos mercados inanceiros. Na literatura empírica são os primeiros estudos que analisam o utilitário de análise técnica, estudos mais recentes aplicadas ao mercado internacional e por último, estudos desenvolvidos para o mercado colombiano. Alguns desses estudos fornecem importantes implicações sobre a eiciência do mercado

Structuring Poverty: How Racism Shapes Child Poverty and Child and Adolescent Health

Black, Native, and Latinx populations represent the racial and ethnic groups most impacted by poverty. This unequal distribution of poverty must be understood as a consequence of policy decisions-some that have sanctioned violence and others that have created norms-that continue to shape who has access to power, resources, rights, and protections. In this review, we draw on scholarship from multiple disciplines, including pediatrics, public health, environmental health, epidemiology, social and biomedical science, law, policy, and urban planning to explore the central question-What is the relationship between structural racism, poverty, and pediatric health? We discuss historic and present-day events that are critical to the understanding of poverty in the context of American racism and pediatric health. We challenge conventional paradigms that treat racialized poverty as an inherent part of American society. We put forth a conceptual framework to illustrate how white supremacy and American capitalism drive structural racism and shape the racial distribution of resources and power where children and adolescents live, learn, and play, ultimately contributing to pediatric health inequities. Finally, we offer antipoverty strategies grounded in antiracist practices that contend with the compounding, generational impact of racism and poverty on heath to improve child, adolescent, and family health