1 Centre for Community Child Health, Royal Free and University College Medical School, Royal Free Campus, University College London, London NW3 2PF 2 Immunisation Division, Communicable Disease ...

Aims: To determine the prevalence of petechial spots in well babies. Methods: A total of 116 babies under the age of 12 months were fully examined at child health surveillance clinics. The number and ...

1 Institute of Cellular Medicine, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK 2 Department of Respiratory Paediatrics, Great North Children's Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Correspondence to ...

Background The evidence base to guide the pharmacological management of tone and abnormal movements in cerebral palsy (CP) is limited, as is an understanding of routine clinical practice in the UK. We ...

Introduction This study reviews the first 3 years of delivery of the first National Health Service (NHS)-commissioned trio rapid whole genome sequencing (rWGS) service for acutely unwell infants and ...

Background We assessed the biopsychosocial needs and key health drivers among children living with a common chronic illness, as baseline for a cluster randomised controlled trial of a child health ...

Virology Section, Department of Experimental Medicine, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy Correspondence to Dr Fabio Midulla, Department of Pediatrics, Sapienza University of Rome, Viale Regina ...

Correspondence to Dr John Murphy, Department of Neonatology, The National Maternity Hospital, Holles Street, Dublin 2, Ireland; johnmurphy104{at}hotmail.com Aims Currently there is debate on how best ...

Growth hormone (GH) therapy has now been available for over 5 decades, with all GH now biosynthetically produced, and administered by daily injection. Paediatric GH is currently licensed in six ...

Importance Vigilant clinical assessment is the key to preventing complications, including death, in infants at risk of neonatal withdrawal syndrome. The eat, sleep and console (ESC) is proposed as an ...