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 ...

1 Ukwanda Centre for Rural Health and the Department of paediatrics and Child Health, Desmond Tutu TB Centre, Faculty of Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa 2 Department ...

Objectives Thyroglossal duct cysts are the most common paediatric midline neck mass. Recurrence reported in literature following classical Sistrunk’s operation remains a problem for 10% of patients, ...

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 ...

Aims 1. To evaluate the compliance with BAAP 2015 guidelines 1 for aetiological investigations of permanent childhood hearing impairment 2. To determine number of children who completed the ...

Objective To determine the incidence, causes and neurodevelopmental impact of severe microcephaly (head circumference <–3SD) up to age 2 years. Design Binational active paediatric surveillance study ...

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, ...

1 Department of Paediatric Gastroenterology, Leeds Children's Hospital, The General Infirmary at Leeds, Leeds, UK 2 Department of Paediatric Hepatology and Small Bowel Transplantation, Birmingham ...