Higher rates of childhood Streptococcus pyogenes (group A Streptococcus (GAS)) infections following the COVID-19 pandemic ...

Non-therapeutic circumcision of boys (‘circumcision’) is legitimised by consent from those with parental responsibility for ...

Within every paediatric respiratory and general paediatric clinic there will be a number of children and families who are ...

Introduction Although the administration of activated charcoal (AC) is considered safe, the associated risk of pulmonary ...

The transition to adult healthcare is a vulnerable period for young people (YP) with chronic conditions linked to non-adherence and suboptimal health outcomes, including increased mortality.1 2 ...

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 ...

Objective To determine the trajectory of cognitive test scores from infancy to adulthood in individuals born extremely preterm compared with term-born individuals. Design A prospective, ...

Background: Clinical vital signs in children (temperature, heart rate, respiration rate, and blood pressure) are an integral part of clinical assessment of degree of illness or normality. Despite this ...

To describe the epidemiology and clinical features of Sydenham’s chorea in the Aboriginal population of northern Australia a review was conducted of 158 episodes in 108 people: 106 were Aborigines, 79 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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; ...