During intensive and long-lasting treatments, short-term or emergency care, children often undergo minor needle-related ...

It is unsettling when parents refuse treatment for their child’s serious illness based on their expectation of a miraculous ...

2 Department Community Child Health, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Yorkhill, Glasgow G3 8SJ, UK 3 Fraser of Allander Neurosciences Unit, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Yorkhill, Glasgow G3 8SJ, ...

BACKGROUND The prevalence of thyroid disease is increased in Down’s syndrome. Most available data come from cross sectional studies. AIMS To study longitudinally thyroid function in patients with Down ...

BACKGROUND In adults, erythema multiforme (EM) is thought to be mainly related to herpes infection and Stevens–Johnson syndrome (SJS) to drug reactions. AIMS To investigate this hypothesis in children ...

Objective Due to lack of information on drug use in children, many drugs are used off-label in paediatrics. Increased knowledge of adverse drug reactions (ADRs) would enable a better risk–benefit ...

Introduction and Objective Hip instability in children with cerebral palsy (CP) is a serious progressive problem. Materials and Methods 141 surgical procedures were performed on children 3 – 16 years ...

Aims Extremely premature infants are at higher risk for intracranial ischaemic and haemorrhagic injuries, which often occur in the first 72 hours after birth. 1 Intraventricular haemorrhages (IVHs) ...

Bacterial tracheitis is the most common paediatric airway emergency requiring admission to the regional paediatric intensive care unit in northern Ireland. We reviewed 89 admissions to our unit with ...

This is the centenary of Dermod MacCarthy and James Robertson who together changed the care of children away from home. Both were born in March 1911, MacCarthy in a Square off the Kings Road in London ...