In 2018, Her Majesty's Government published statutory and operational guidance setting out how children’s deaths are reviewed in England, aiming to ensure practice is standardised and review of each ...

Objective To determine whether any children in the UK had variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD). Design This active prospective epidemiological study used the British Paediatric Surveillance Unit, ...

Introduction High ‘did not attend’ rates have a huge impact on precious NHS resources. Paediatric DNAs add another dimension to this problem: the safety of the unseen child. Aim The overall aim of ...

Background The period through pregnancy and the early years is crucial for optimising child growth, development and lifelong well-being. Son-preference (family desire for male over female children) ...

a Department of Paediatrics, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, Netherlands, b Child Health Division, TNO Prevention and Health, Leiden, Netherlands Dr A M Fredriks, TN0-P8, PO Box 2215, 2301 ...

Background and Objectives Prolonged neonatal jaundice is defined as jaundice persisting in a term neonate at 14 days and a preterm neonate at 21 days of age. Prolonged neonatal jaundice is most ...

1 Lecturer in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, UK 2 Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University Department of Psychiatry, ...

Introduction Paracetamol is a readily available antipyretic and analgesic, widely used to treat mild to moderate pain. Unintentional overdosing in neonates occurs, but so far only single case reports ...

Correspondence to Dr Vianney Gilard, Department of Pediatric Neurosurgery, Necker Enfants Malades Hospital, APHP, Paris 5 University, Paris 75015, France; vianneygilard{at}hotmail.fr Objective The aim ...

Backgound: Almost all cases of DiGeorge syndrome, velo-cardio-facial syndrome and conotruncal anomaly face syndrome result from a common deletion of chromosome 22q11.2. These syndromes are usually ...

1 Department of Paediatric Neurology, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust, London, UK 2 Department of Radiology, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust, Institute of Child ...

OBJECTIVE To estimate physical activity energy expenditure (AEE) in groups of free living infants in the first year of life. DESIGN Mixed longitudinal study of 124 healthy infants, using 232 ...