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

Introduction Trauma is the leading cause of death in children over 1 year of age in the UK. However, individual prehospital ...

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Background Neonates are at major risk of sepsis, but data on neonatal sepsis incidence are scarce. We aimed to assess the incidence and mortality of neonatal sepsis worldwide. Methods We performed a ...

1 Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) Working Group on Recognising Acute Illness in Children, London, UK 2 Department of Paediatrics, Imperial College London, London, UK 3 Department ...

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 ...

Correspondence to Dr Amy Jane Stevens, Health Education England Yorkshire and the Humber, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK; amyjanestevens{at}doctors.org.uk The numbers of people forcibly displaced from their homes ...

Paediatric Microbiology, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children and UCL Institute of Child Health, London, UK N J Sebire, Department of Paediatric Pathology, Great Ormond Street Hospital for ...

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 ...

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 ...