Correspondence to: Prof. M Levin, Department of Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine, Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG, UK; m.levin{at}ic.ac.uk Neisseria ...

PANDAS, or pediactric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorder associated with Streptococcus pyogenes, is characterized by an acute onset of neuropsychiatric symptoms which seem unexplainable. These ...

Objective To evaluate the impact of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) on child and family functioning. Design Prospective survey. Setting Multidisciplinary FASD assessment service. Patients ...

Evidence based medicine implies that healthcare professionals are expected to base their practice on the best available evidence. This means that we should acquire the necessary skills for appraising ...

Tablets are safer, more convenient and cheaper than liquid medications. Children and young people (CYP) often remain on liquids due to habit, reluctance to change or staff and parents’ lack of ...

Department of Paediatrics, University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, Coventry, UK Correspondence to Dr Matthew Thompson, Oxford University Department of Primary Health Care, Rosemary ...

Introduction Sickle cell Disease (SCD) is one of the common hemoglobinopathies in central India. Children with sickle cell disease may have enlarged spleen initially which may regress later due to ...

In order to assess the extent to which children in the UK will follow the UK-WHO head circumference standard, the authors used head circumference data from the Southampton Women's Survey (n=3159) and ...

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Why did you do this work?Child poverty in the UK increased from 3.6 million in 2010/11 to 4.3 million in 2022/23, with larger families affected most. 1 Poverty is linked to worse child health outcomes ...