Objectives Barking and Dagenham is an economically deprived borough of London with high levels of child poverty and more than 600 children and young people (CYP) who are in the care system. CYP in ...

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Correspondence to Dr Frances Hutchings, Department of Paediatric Respiratory Medicine, Bristol Royal Hospital for Children, Upper Maudlin Street, Bristol BS2 8BJ, UK; fhutchings{at}doctors.org.uk ...

Objective To determine the safety of ciprofloxacin in paediatric patients in relation to arthropathy, any other adverse events (AEs) and drug interactions. Methods A systematic search of MEDLINE, ...

During the 10-year period 1960-69, 137 patients in Ruchill Hospital were diagnosed by clinical and laboratory findings as mumps meningitis. Parotitis was detected in only 51 (37%). There was a male ...

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 ...

The hierarchy of evidence in assessing the effectiveness of interventions or treatments is explained, and the gold standard for evaluating the effectiveness of interventions, the randomised controlled ...

AIMS To delineate common and variable features and outcome of children with congenital disorder of glycosylation type Ia (CDG-Ia) caused by the frequent R141H/F119LPMM2 genotype. METHODS Clinical data ...

Asthma has little, if any, significant effect on attained adult height. Untreated asthma results in a delay of puberty by approximately 1.3 years, and pubertal delay is likely to explain the majority ...

2 Department of Public Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK Correspondence to: Prof. P O D Pharoah Department of Public Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3GB, UK; ...

and reprint requests to: Dr Alastair J Baker, Department of Child Health, King’s College Hospital, Denmark Hill, London SE5 9RS. Hepatitis GB virus-C (HGBV-C)/hepatitis G virus (HGV) infection was ...

Correspondence to Dr Silvia Bressan, Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, University of Padova Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, Padova 35128, Italy; silviabress{at}gmail.com If you wish to ...