Division of Dysmorphology Teratology, University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine, California, USA Dr L Stellwagen, Mail Code 8774, Division of Neonatology, University of California, San ...

Evidence based medicine implies that healthcare professionals are expected to base their practice on the best available evidence. This means that we should acquire the necessary skills for appraising ...

Vitamin B12 levels are often recommended for children. Locally, we note many children have B12 levels above the upper limit of normal (771 ng/L1). We receive frequent advice requests from GPs ...

Objectives In April 2021, the South London Coroner, Philip Barlow, concluded that 9yr old Ella Adoo Kissi Debrah died of asthma, contributed to by exposure to excessive air pollution. 1 He criticised ...

Background It is suggested that late initiation of toilet training contributes to functional gastrointestinal disorders in children. This study aims to evaluate if assisted infant toilet training can ...

Objective Describe the etiologies and clinical characteristics of febrile infants with a bulging fontanelle. Methods Medical charts of all infants aged 3-18 months who underwent a lumbar puncture ...

Fluid therapy restores circulation by expanding extracellular fluid. However, a dispute has arisen regarding the nature of intravenous therapy for acutely ill children following the development of ...

Correspondence to Dr Jenny M Kindblom, Pediatric Clinical Research Center, Queen Silvia Children’s Hospital, Vitaminvägen 21, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Goteborg 413 45, Sweden; ...

Most children in hospital who are clinically deteriorating are monitored regularly, and their treatment is escalated effectively. However a small, but significant, number of deteriorating children ...

AIMS To study the association between smoking during pregnancy and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) using prospectively collected data, making it possible to account for a number of potential ...

Objectives Near-peer teaching (NPT) is an approach to medical education that benefits both students and educators (1, 2). Paediatric trainees are expected to plan and deliver teaching (3) but lack ...

Academic Unit of Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Leeds, UK Correspondence to: Dr A J Field Academic Unit of Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 12a Clarendon Road, Leeds, LS2 9NN, UK; ...