Poor saliva control (sialorrhoea) represents a considerable burden to paediatric patients with neurodevelopmental ...

Over the last several years, clinical knowlege of hypertension (HTN) in children and adolescents has gained ground in ...

Each year hundreds of randomised controlled trials are conducted in low- and middle-income countries addressing issues in clinical paediatrics and in child and adolescent health. The topics are as ...

Correspondence to Dr Alison Salt, Neurodisability Service, The Nurses Home Building, Great Ormond, Street Hospital for Children, Great Ormond Street, London WC1N 3JH, UK; alison.salt{at}gosh.nhs.uk ...

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 ...

Objective To determine the safety of ciprofloxacin in paediatric patients in relation to arthropathy, any other adverse events (AEs) and drug interactions. Methods A systematic search of MEDLINE, ...

Rationale Studies suggest that increased breastfeeding rates can provide substantial financial savings, but the scale of such savings in the UK is not known. Objective To calculate potential cost ...

Department of Paediatric Cardiology, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Correspondence to Dr Claire Irving, Department of Paediatric Cardiology, Freeman Hospital, Freeman Road, Newcastle upon ...

1 Paediatric Liver, Gastroenterology & Nutrition Centre and MowatLabs, King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK Portal hypertension (PHT), defined as raised intravascular pressure in ...

Correspondence to Marije A Brouwer, Department of Pediatrics, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen 9700 VB, Netherlands; m.a.brouwer{at}umcg.nl Objective Breaking bad news about ...

Objective To study the impact of body mass index (BMI) SD score (SDS) improvement through lifestyle modification on metabolic risk and body composition over 12 months. Design Prospective cohort study.

The hierarchy of evidence in assessing the effectiveness of interventions or treatments is explained, and the gold standard for evaluating the effectiveness of interventions, the randomised controlled ...