Objectives To investigate the prevalence of Autistic Spectrum Disorders (ASD) in children aged 0-19 across 7 major ethnic groups. Background In March 2009, researchers in the department of health in ...

Correspondence to Dr Claire Kerr, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast BT9 7BL, UK; c.kerr{at}qub.ac.uk Background Cerebral palsy (CP) is a non-progressive disorder of ...

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 ...

AIMS To address some of the issues in the ongoing debate over the optimal diagnostic imaging following childhood urinary tract infection (UTI), by determining the risk of missing renal cortical ...

Correspondence to Dr Kshitij Mankad, Department of Radiology, Great Ormond Street Hospital For Children NHS Foundation Trust, London WC1N 3JH, UK; drmankad{at}gmail.com We reviewed the incidence of ...

The medical examiner (ME) system was introduced in England and Wales in May 2019. Subsequently, the Health and Care Act of 2022 laid the foundations for a statutory system which was implemented on 9 ...

1 Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, USA 2 Department of Pediatrics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, ...

2 Paediatrics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University Singapore, Singapore 3 Family Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University Singapore, Singapore 4 Family Medicine, ...

1 Department of ENT, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Glasgow, UK 2 Paediatric Intensive Care Department, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Glasgow, UK Correspondence to Dr Lyndsay Fraser, Department ...

1 City St. George's University of London, London, UK 2 St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK Background Legg-Calve-Perthes disease (LCPD) is a developmental disorder ...

Objective Adherence to attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) medication treatment is often suboptimal. This can compromise patient outcomes. We aimed to ...

Paediatricians, and society in general, often feel very uncertain about trajectories of gender questioning in children. Gender-questioning children have not historically been referred to ...