Objectives Guidance is currently lacking in the UK regarding which children and young people (CAYP) should be referred for ...

Introduction Ethnic differences in the birth prevalence of congenital heart defects (CHDs) have been reported; however, studies of the contemporary UK population are lacking. We investigated ethnic ...

Early Years Research Programme, Institute of Primary Care and Public Health, Cardiff University, Heath Park, Cardiff, UK Correspondence to Professor Alison Mary Kemp, Institute of Primary Care and ...

4 Centre for Accident Research & Road Safety—Queensland, Institute for Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Queensland, Australia Correspondence to Professor Karen ...

Objectives Systematic review to determine the efficacy and safety of Tiotropium as add-on therapy with inhaled corticosteroids (ICS), compared to placebo with ICS, for mild persistent asthma in 6–12 ...

Vincent Fairfax Paediatric Pain Unit, and Department of Anaesthesia, Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children, Westmead, New South Wales, Australia Dr S A Kanagasundaram, Dept of Anaesthesia, Jenner ...

PURPOSE Comparison of bone age assessed using either the “atlas matching” method of Greulich and Pyle or the “point scoring system” of Tanner and Whitehouse (TW2). MATERIALS AND METHODS 362 ...

Dr R Viner, Department of Paediatrics, Middlesex Hospital, Mortimer Street, London W1N 8AA, UK. email:R.Viner{at}ich.ucl.ac.uk If you wish to reuse any or all of this ...

8 University of Montpellier, Department of Neonatal Pediatrics and Intensive Care, Montpellier University Hospital, Montpellier, France 9 Nantes Université, CHU de Nantes, Department of General ...

Introduction Amoebiasis is a parasitic infection caused by a protozoan called Entamoeba Histolytica (EH). It is responsible for up to 100,000 deaths every year worldwide. Only a handful of cases of ...

BACKGROUND Cause specific research on death certification in chronic disease has rarely involved cerebral palsy. AIMS To evaluate cause of death information in people known to have cerebral palsy by: ...

We compared the growth of children with cri du chat (5p−) syndrome with the 1990 UK growth curves. Most subjects had impaired growth, particularly of head circumference. The more emaciated the child ...