Correspondence to: Prof. M Levin, Department of Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine, Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG, UK; m.levin{at}ic.ac.uk Neisseria ...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the ability of clinicians involved in the provision of paediatric intensive care to estimate cardiac index in ventilated children, based on physical examination and clinical and ...

To discover that there is uncertainty about the sex of one’s newborn baby is devastating and often incomprehensible for most parents. It is paramount that clear explanations and investigations are ...

Mixed longitudinal data on the physical changes at puberty in 228 normal boys are presented together with normal standards for stages of genital and pubic hair development. The genitalia began to ...

Objectives To determine (1) which maternal and area characteristics are associated with reaching fidelity targets (the expected number of visits mothers should receive at each stage of the programme) ...

AIM To determine whether intellectual and cognitive impairments observed seven years following early childhood bacterial meningitis persist into adolescence. METHODS Blinded neuropsychological, ...

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Higher rates of childhood Streptococcus pyogenes (group A Streptococcus (GAS)) infections following the COVID-19 pandemic have exposed uncertainty about the epidemiology of immune-mediated ...

Department of Paediatric Intensive Care, Guy’s Hospital, London SE1 9RT, UK Dr S Tibby, Department of Paediatric Intensive Care, Guy’s Hospital, London SE1 9RT, UK; Shane.Tibby{at}gstt.sthames.nhs.uk ...

Objective To assess the pharmacokinetics and safety/tolerability of isoniazid, rifampicin and pyrazinamide in children and adolescents with tuberculous meningitis ...

AIMS To delineate common and variable features and outcome of children with congenital disorder of glycosylation type Ia (CDG-Ia) caused by the frequent R141H/F119LPMM2 genotype. METHODS Clinical data ...

The hierarchy of evidence in assessing the effectiveness of interventions or treatments is explained, and the gold standard for evaluating the effectiveness of interventions, the randomised controlled ...