BACKGROUND Procalcitonin has been advocated as a marker of bacterial infection. OBJECTIVE To evaluate diagnostic markers of infection in critically ill children, comparing procalcitonin with C ...

Background In England, there is a discrepancy between the prevalence of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) ascertained from medical records and community ...

Non-therapeutic circumcision of boys (‘circumcision’) is legitimised by consent from those with parental responsibility for ...

Higher rates of childhood Streptococcus pyogenes (group A Streptococcus (GAS)) infections following the COVID-19 pandemic ...

AIM To assess delay in confirming hearing impairment in infants identified by universal neonatal screening and to investigate the causes. PATIENTS Infants identified from 25 199 babies screened from ...

3 Department of Paediatric Psychology, Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals, Oxford, UK 4 Department of Paediatric Psychology & Play Therapy, Birmingham Children's Hospital, Birmingham, UK Correspondence to ...

Department of Paediatric Cardiology, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Correspondence to Dr Claire Irving, Department of Paediatric Cardiology, Freeman Hospital, Freeman Road, Newcastle upon ...

Correspondence to Dr. Xiaohui Li, Department of Cardiovascular Diseases, Children’s Hospital Capital Institute of Pediatrics, Beijing 100020, China; lxhmaggie{at}126.com and Dr. Caifeng Li, Department ...

Within every paediatric respiratory and general paediatric clinic there will be a number of children and families who are ...

1 Department of Paediatric Immunology, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK 2 Regional Immunology Department, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust Correspondence to: Dr ...

1 Department of Paediatric Endocrinology, University Hospital Southampton, Southampton, UK 2 Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes, Birmingham Children's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, ...

Correspondence to Dr Mohamed Mutalib, Department of Paediatric Gastroenterologist, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, London SE1 7EH, UK; mohamed.mutalib{at}gstt.nhs.uk Background Pneumatosis ...