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Question of the Week

Q. A 3-month-old boy has had a persistent cough for 7 days. His chest is clear. CXR is normal. What medicine can we give to relieve his symptoms?

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Teaching Files/ Grand Rounds

A 14-year-old boy presented with a painless, progressively enlarging right cheek swelling for six months. There was no fever or trauma. He had a mixed dietary pattern. On examination, there was a solitary, non-tender, freely mobile, well-defined, smo ...

Should the child be treated with antihelminthics?

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Diagnostic Dilemma

A 10-year-old girl born of non-consanguineous marriage resident of Bihar, India presented with fever and recurrent jaundice for 4 years. She has fever and jaundice every 15 days that lasted 2-3 months and subsided on treatment. She had bleeding from the mouth 2 years ago. There was no hematemesis, m ...

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