Objective For most children with kidney failure, a decision is made to commence kidney replacement therapies (KRT); however, ...
Background Sensory processing function is the child’s ability to register, modulate and discriminate between different sensory information arising from the body (e.g. tactile and vestibular sense) and ...
In the UK, registration with a primary care provider does not simply provide access to a general practitioner (GP), but is a ...
Background Autoimmune neutropenia (AIN) is the main cause of chronic neutropenia in children, but its infectious consequences ...
In the earliest part of the twentieth century, the scant attention paid to child mental health reflected a medical interest ...
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Aims: To examine the childhood overweight and obesity prevalence trends between 1974 and 2003 and to assess whether these trends relate to parental social class and household income. Methods: A school ...
3 University College Dublin, Department of Paediatrics, The Children’s University Hospital, Temple St, Dublin 1, Ireland Correspondence to: Cliona McGarvey National Sudden Infant Death Register, ...
Tablets are safer, more convenient and cheaper than liquid medications. Children and young people (CYP) often remain on liquids due to habit, reluctance to change or staff and parents’ lack of ...
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 ...
Growth hormone (GH) therapy has now been available for over 5 decades, with all GH now biosynthetically produced, and administered by daily injection. Paediatric GH is currently licensed in six ...
AIM To obtain a prevalence rate and determine the distribution of accidental bruising in babies. METHODS 177 babies aged 6–12 months were examined naked to look for bruises. They were seen in health ...