Introduction After a child is discharged home following an emergency admission to hospital, little is known about contact ...

Aims Bilateral dysfunction of the parieto-occipital cortex, linked to the visual cortex by the dorsal stream, variably produces simultanagnosia (SIM), optic ataxia (OA), and gaze apraxia. This triad, ...

Background Guidelines and evidence identify that children and young people (CYP) who die from asthma frequently have a severe preceding attack. There is no agreed name or case definition for the most ...

The rise in non-communicable disease as a principal cause of premature mortality and a continuing failure to address health inequalities requires a critical examination of prevailing paradigms in ...

1 Department of Radiology, University College London Hospital, London, UK 2 Department of Paediatrics, North Middlesex University Hospital, London, UK 3 Department of Paediatrics, Whittington Hospital ...

Aims: To evaluate ibuprofen population pharmacokinetics in a large series of data collected in children with cystic fibrosis (CF) treated with high doses of ibuprofen (59 patients; 2–18 years), and to ...

Correspondence to Dr Nils Krone, Academic Unit of Child Health, Department of Oncology and Metabolism, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TH, UK; n.krone{at}sheffield.ac.uk Steroid biosynthesis ...

Mixed longitudinal data on the physical changes at puberty in 228 normal boys are presented together with normal standards for stages of genital and pubic hair development. The genitalia began to ...

Correspondence to Dr Susan Byrne, Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin 2, Ireland; suabyrne{at}rcsi.ie Introduction ...

Introduction The most common food allergy in children is cow’s milk protein allergy, and the clinical manifestations of the entity are very diverse. Beside the organic symptoms of milk protein allergy ...

Background The broad-spectrum antiparasitic drug ivermectin is widely used in children, and its use in children weighing < 15 kg is off-label, as little data is available to inform the use of ...

Department of Gastroenterology, Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Sydney, Australia A Morrow, Centre for Kidney Research, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Locked Bag 4001, Westmead NSW 2145, Sydney ...