Calley and colleagues provide a timely reminder of the high morbidity and mortality associated with pertussis (whooping cough ...

Objective For most children with kidney failure, a decision is made to commence kidney replacement therapies (KRT); however, ...

In the UK, registration with a primary care provider does not simply provide access to a general practitioner (GP), but is a ...

Background Autoimmune neutropenia (AIN) is the main cause of chronic neutropenia in children, but its infectious consequences ...

In the earliest part of the twentieth century, the scant attention paid to child mental health reflected a medical interest ...

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Aims: To examine the childhood overweight and obesity prevalence trends between 1974 and 2003 and to assess whether these trends relate to parental social class and household income. Methods: A school ...

1 Department of Anaesthesiology, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand 2 Department of Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacology, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand Correspondence to ...

Tablets are safer, more convenient and cheaper than liquid medications. Children and young people (CYP) often remain on liquids due to habit, reluctance to change or staff and parents’ lack of ...

Correspondence to Dr Kshitij Mankad, Department of Radiology, Great Ormond Street Hospital For Children NHS Foundation Trust, London WC1N 3JH, UK; drmankad{at}gmail.com We reviewed the incidence of ...

AIM To assess the potential for administering catch up and scheduled immunisations during hospital admission. METHODS Immunisation status according to the child’s principal carer was checked against ...