Air pollution poses a significant public health challenge, particularly for paediatric populations, with extensive evidence ...

Hearing loss is a common congenital anomaly and there is clear evidence of the benefits of early diagnosis and then treatment. For maximum positive impact, the diagnosis needs to be made as early as ...

Objective To explore parental perceptions of nasogastric tube (NGT) insertion for adolescents who have received inpatient treatment for an eating disorder and to identify factors shaping a positive or ...

Luigi Pirandello (1867–1936), who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1934, is one of the most influential Italian authors of the early twentieth century. His work offers an exact and humane vision ...

Objective Risk prediction models for community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) in hospitalised children are limited, especially in upper-middle-income countries. We developed a PaEdiatric Pneumonia Severity ...

Celebrating 100 years of the British Journal Archives of Disease in Childhood ( ADC ) provides a milestone opportunity also to look back on the achievements of our own specialty; the care of children ...

Department of Paediatrics, University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, Coventry, UK Correspondence to Dr Matthew Thompson, Oxford University Department of Primary Health Care, Rosemary ...

In order to assess the extent to which children in the UK will follow the UK-WHO head circumference standard, the authors used head circumference data from the Southampton Women's Survey (n=3159) and ...

The UK Renal Registry currently collects information on UK children with kidney failure requiring long-term kidney replacement therapy (KRT), which supports disease surveillance and auditing of care ...

Background The diagnostic value of tests used in assessing hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis (HPA) in children remains controversial. Design A systematic review and meta-analysis with ...

1 Department of Paediatric Surgery, Southampton University Hospital NHS Trust, Southampton, UK 2 Department of Paediatric Gastroenterology, University of Southampton, Southampton University Hospital ...

a University of Oxford Section of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Park Hospital for Children, Old Road, Headington, Oxford OX3 7LQ, UK, b Department of Paediatrics, John Radcliffe Hospital, ...