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Calley and colleagues provide a timely reminder of the high morbidity and mortality associated with pertussis (whooping cough ...

Medical Research Council/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK Correspondence to Dr Alison Parkes, MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University ...

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 ...

Objective For most children with kidney failure, a decision is made to commence kidney replacement therapies (KRT); however, ...

Daniel E Lumsden, Ramalakshmi Ramiah, Todd Smallbone, Will Singleton, Sam Amin, Sarah Perides, Gina Lumsdon, Reiko Ashida, Jonathan Ellenbogen, Keymoumars Ashkan ...

Background and Aims Newborns are more sensitive to oxidative stress than older infants. Melatonin, based on its properties as chronobiotic, antioxidant, or analgesic, offers perspectives of beneficial ...

AIM To assess the potential for administering catch up and scheduled immunisations during hospital admission. METHODS Immunisation status according to the child’s principal carer was checked against ...

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 ...

Objectives Over the past few years, there has been a perceived increase in the incidence of conflict between clinical staff and parents in Children and Young People (CYP) health care settings. A ...