Aims • Raise awareness of plastic pollution and its dangers to marine animals and potentially humans. • Education of children in schools • Litter-picking Methods In 2017 WASUP was founded. A working ...

Background Mental health problems are prevalent in children and young people (CYP). Children with neurodevelopmental disorders such as ASD have co-morbid mental health difficulties which add to the ...

Objectives Asthma is the most common chronic condition in children, affecting 2–3 in every primary school class.1 Asthma disproportionately affects children living in poverty due to air pollution, ...

Objectives Hand dominance usually develops in children around 18 months old, while earlier hand preference may indicate cerebral palsy.1 Hand preference in humans is thought to be related to the ...

Introduction More than half of all drugs are still prescribed off-label to children. To support off-label dosing, pharmacokinetic (PK) data are needed. Physiologically-based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) ...

Objectives Newborn screening helps to identify inherited disorders at their asymptomatic stage and intervene before babies go into the symptomatic phase. A number of Inherited Metabolic Disorders ...

Methods We used novel linkage between health and education records from the Education and Child Health Insights from Linked Data (ECHILD) database to develop a whole-country cohort of children ...

Objective According to international guidelines, children with enuresis are recommended urotherapy, or basic bladder advice, before treatment with evidence-based alternatives such as the enuresis ...

Aims The HEADSSS assessment is an internationally used tool to help give structure and framework to an assessment of an adolescent patient. Objective To analyze the knowledge among doctors in the ...

Objective To evaluate the cost-effectiveness of planned observation on cranial CT use in children with minor head trauma. Design Planned secondary analysis of a multicentre prospective observation ...

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 ...

Cerebral palsy (CP) is an umbrella term that defines a group of non-progressive, but often changing, syndromes of motor impairment secondary to lesions or anomalies of the brain arising in the early ...