Objective The objective is to determine the incidence of sudden unexplained death in childhood (SUDC) for children aged ...

Objective To describe infants with acute gastroenteritis symptoms in primary and secondary care who have the Rotarix vaccine-derived G1P[8] rotavirus strain identified in their stools. Design This is ...

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, ...

Correspondence to Dr Shaman Rajindrajith, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya, Thalagolla Road, Ragama 11010, Sri Lanka; shamanr0{at}lycos.com Objectives To assess ...

Objective Cefepime, a fourth-generation cephalosporin, is used in the treatment of severe nosocomial infections in neonates. Pharmacokinetics of cefepime was limited. Therefore, we aimed to study the ...

Background Acute chest syndromes (ACS) may be associated with upper respiratory tract infections, but the epidemiology of viral and intracellular respiratory pathogens in children with sickle cell ...

From the age of 3 to 24 months, capillary Hb levels were measured on normal term infants who received no medicinal iron from any source. The mean and standard deviations are recorded at 3-monthly ...

Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Children, Royal Hospitals Trust, Hackney Road, London E2 8PS, UK Dr S A McKenzie, Queen Elizabeth Children’s Services, Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel, London E1 1BB, ...

The Roald Dahl EEG Unit, Department of Neurology, Royal Liverpool Children’s NHS Trust (Alder Hey), Liverpool, UK Correspondence to: Dr R Appleton The Roald Dahl EEG Unit, Department of Neurology, ...

Aims In 2018 the National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death (NCEPOD) launched ‘Each and Every Need: a review of the quality of care provided to patients 0–25 with chronic ...

Correspondence to: Prof. N Maffulli Department of Trauma and Orthopaedics, Keele University School of Medicine, Thornburrow Drive, Hartshill, Stoke on Trent ST4 7QB, UK; osa14keele.ac.uk The Training ...

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 ...