Background Using the National Birth Defects Prevention Network (NBDPN) annual data
report, US national prevalence estimates for major birth defects are developed based on birth …

Background The Clinical Dementia Rating Scale Sum of Boxes (CDR-SOB) score is commonly
used, although the utility regarding this score in staging dementia severity is not well …

Rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) is the most common soft tissue sarcoma in children and
represents a high-grade neoplasm of skeletal myoblast-like cells. Decades of clinical and basic …

Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH) is a clonal disorder with elusive etiology, characterized
by the accumulation of CD207 + dendritic cells (DCs) in inflammatory lesions. Recurrent …

Childhood brain tumors are the most common pediatric solid tumor and include several
histologic subtypes. Although progress has been made in improving survival rates for some …

Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH) is a myeloproliferative disorder characterized by
lesions composed of pathological CD207 + dendritic cells with an inflammatory infiltrate. …

Background There is little data on treatment of Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH) in adults.
Available data is on small numbers of patients with short follow-up times and no comparison …

Although a previous metaanalysis indicated that maternal smoking during pregnancy increased
the risk of congenital heart defects (CHD) in offspring, the effect of smoking on individual …

Background Airborne emissions from numerous point, area, and mobile sources, along with
stagnant meteorologic conditions, contribute to frequent episodes of elevated air pollution in …

Background Previous studies have reported positive associations between maternal
exposure to air pollutants and several adverse birth outcomes. However, there have been no …