Missing Girls in India: Infanticide, Feticide and Made-to-Order Pregnancies? Insights from Hospital-Based Sex-Ratio-at-Birth over the Last Century
Sahni M, Verma N, Narula D, Varghese RM, Sreenivas V, et al. (2008) Missing Girls in India: Infanticide, Feticide and Made-to-Order Pregnancies? Insights from Hospital-Based Sex-Ratio-at-Birth over the Last Century. PLoS ONE 3(5): e2224.doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0002224
Risk Factors for Preterm Birth in an International Prospective Cohort of Nulliparous Women
Dekker GA, Lee SY, North RA, McCowan LM, Simpson NAB, et al. (2012) Risk Factors for Preterm Birth in an International Prospective Cohort of Nulliparous Women. PLoS ONE 7(7): e39154. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0039154
Individual and Contextual Factors Associated with Low Childhood Immunisation Coverage in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Multilevel Analysis
Wiysonge CS, Uthman OA, Ndumbe PM, Hussey GD (2012) Individual and Contextual Factors Associated with Low Childhood Immunisation Coverage in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Multilevel Analysis. PLoS ONE 7(5): e37905. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0037905
A new field of developmental neuroscience changes our understanding of the early years of human life
Science Codex
October 8, 2012

Children in war
29TH JAN 2013

During the last 10 years, around 10 million children are estimated to have been killed as a result of war.
Child development in developing countries 3 
Strategies to avoid the loss of developmental potential in 
more than 200 million children in the developing world 
Patrice L Engle, Maureen M Black, Jere R Behrman, Meena Cabral de Mello, Paul J Gertler, Lydia Kapiriri, Reynaldo Martorell, Mary Eming Young, and the International Child Development Steering Group 2007
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A United Nations General Assembly Special Session for Mental, Neurological, and Substance Use Disorders:The Time Has Come
Bass JK, Bornemann TH, Burkey M, Chehil S, Chen L, et al. (2012) A United Nations General Assembly Special Session for Mental, Neurological, and Substance Use Disorders: The Time Has Come. PLoS Med 9(1): e1001159. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001159
Measuring the Population Burden of Injuries—Implications for Global and National Estimates: A Multi-centre Prospective UK Longitudinal Study
Lyons RA, Kendrick D, Towner EM, Christie N, Macey S, et al. (2011) Measuring the Population Burden of Injuries—Implications for Global and National Estimates: A Multi-centre Prospective UK Longitudinal Study. PLoS Med 8(12): e1001140. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001140
How poverty influences a child's brain development 
IVAN SEMENIUK
The Globe and Mail
Friday, Jan. 25 2013
Science is figuring out exactly how the damage is done and what steps can be taken to halt and then heal it.