Objective Boys born with posterior urethral valves (PUV) often experience bladder development issues due to urethral ...

Introduction After a child is discharged home following an emergency admission to hospital, little is known about contact ...

In January 1860, a Court heard ‘complaints of chastisement’ inflicted on a child with significant injuries.1 The physical punishment the child had been subjected to was reportedly designed to ‘subdue ...

Objectives Down syndrome, the most common genetic disorder, is caused by the presence of all or part of a third copy of chromosome 21. We identified the top 10 patient and carer research priorities ...

Correspondence to Dr Helen McDevitt, Paediatric Bone and Endocrinology, Royal Hospital for Children Glasgow, Glasgow G51 4TF, UK; helenmcd{at}doctors.org.uk Objective To determine the incidence, ...

Background Guidelines and evidence identify that children and young people (CYP) who die from asthma frequently have a severe preceding attack. There is no agreed name or case definition for the most ...

As she lies in the bed that we have come to know as hers, her father, with love and devotion, brushes her long, dark hair before tying it into braids with colourful ribbons that she will never see.

1 School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK 2 Department of Paediatrics, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK 3 Pharmacy Department, Addenbrooke's ...

Correspondence to Dr Tim Cheetham, Paediatric Endocrinology, Great North Children's Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 4LP, UK; tim.cheetham{at}nhs.net Graves’ disease is a rare disorder that continues ...

Introduction Previous studies including Welsh National Audit on management of Broncholitis have stimulated interest to assess appropriateness of CXR requests within Welsh paediatric departments. Basic ...

The rise in non-communicable disease as a principal cause of premature mortality and a continuing failure to address health inequalities requires a critical examination of prevailing paradigms in ...