In this next edition of "Advances in Medicine and Biology," chapters include research on the obesity prevention programs for elementary school-age children; foreign body ingestion in children; the use of fluorescent tracer retrograde labeling to identify somatosensory dorsal root ganglia neurons; the contribution of PGE2 induced nociceptor sensitization and potentiation to chronic pain conditions; ultrasounds for trigeminal neuralgia; postoperative monitoring after free tissue transfers; the mobilization, collection and transfusion of granulocytes; the defects of granulocytes and granulopoiesis; near infrared spectroscopy in neonatal clinical monitoring and in the food and pharmaceutical industries; and Sarco(endo)Plasmic Reticulum Calcium-ATPases (SERCAs) and MicroRNAs.