Objective To determine whether any children in the UK had variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD). Design This active ...

1 School of Human and Health Sciences, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK 2 School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work, University of Salford, Salford, UK 3 School of Nursing and Midwifery ...

Objective To determine the safety of ciprofloxacin in paediatric patients in relation to arthropathy, any other adverse events (AEs) and drug interactions. Methods A systematic search of MEDLINE, ...

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 ...

The rise in non-communicable disease as a principal cause of premature mortality and a continuing failure to address health inequalities requires a critical examination of prevailing paradigms in ...

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, ...

Background: Current best practice for treating acute severe pain in children is to administer intravenous or intranasal opioid. Intranasal diamorphine offers less traumatic analgesia than the ...

Correspondence to Dr Frances Hutchings, Department of Paediatric Respiratory Medicine, Bristol Royal Hospital for Children, Upper Maudlin Street, Bristol BS2 8BJ, UK; fhutchings{at}doctors.org.uk ...

Hypocalcaemia is a common clinical scenario in children with a range of aetiological causes. It will often present with common symptoms but may occasionally be identified in an asymptomatic child. An ...

Background The broad-spectrum antiparasitic drug ivermectin is widely used in children, and its use in children weighing < 15 kg is off-label, as little data is available to inform the use of ...

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in childhood and adolescence is an impairing condition, associated with a specific set of distressing symptoms incorporating repetitive, intrusive thoughts ...

The concept of DAMP (deficits in attention, motor control, and perception) has been in clinical use in Scandinavia for about 20 years. DAMP is diagnosed on the basis of concomitant attention ...