Metabolic bone disease of prematurity (MBDP) is characterised by skeletal demineralisation, and in severe cases it can result in fragility fractures of long bones and ribs during routine handling.

BACKGROUND Slight morphological asymmetry of the cerebral hemispheres has been observed in fetal and newborn brains. In adults, sex differences in hemispheric asymmetry have also been reported.

Correspondence to Dr Mark John Johnson, Department of Neonatal Medicine, Princess Anne Hospital, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, SO16 5YA, UK; ...

Fetal Medicine Research Unit, University of Bristol, Department of Obstetrics, St Michael’s Hospital, Bristol BS2 8EG Professor Peter Soothill. If you wish to reuse ...

University of Bristol Department of Child Health Southmead Hospital Southmead Bristol BS10 5NB Professor Peter Dunn. If you wish to reuse any or all of this article ...

Objective Since therapeutic hypothermia became standard care for neonatal hypoxic–ischaemic encephalopathy (HIE), even fewer infants die or have disability at 18-month assessment than in the clinical ...

Objective To quantify trends in caffeine use in infants born at <32 weeks’ gestational age (GA), and to investigate the effects of early vs late caffeine on neonatal outcomes. Study design ...

1 Neonatal Unit, Norfolk & Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Norwich, UK 2 Neonatal Unit, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Bradford, UK 3 Newcastle Neonatal Service, ...

BACKGROUND Ventricular outputs cannot be used to assess systemic blood flow in preterm infants because they are confounded by shunts through the ductus arteriosus and atrial septum. However, flow ...

Correspondence to Dr Sujoy Banerjee, Department of Neonatal Medicine, Singleton Hospital, Swansea, SA2 8QA, UK; sujoy.banerjee{at}wales.nhs.uk Setting Ten perinatal hospitals in Wales, UK. Patients ...

Department of Pediatrics, University Hospital Principe de Asturias, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain Dr Villó, Servicio de Pediatria, Hospital Universitario Príncipe de Asturias, Carretera de ...

2 Division of Child Health, St George's, University of London, London, UK 3 MRC Centre of Epidemiology for Child Health, University College London – Institute of Child Health, London, UK 4 Paediatric ...