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; ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Academic Division of Child Health, University of Nottingham, Derbyshire Children's Hospital, Derby, UK Correspondence to Zayed Alsulami, Academic Division of Child Health, University of Nottingham, ...

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, ...