Objectives In April 2021, the South London Coroner, Philip Barlow, concluded that 9yr old Ella Adoo Kissi Debrah died of asthma, contributed to by exposure to excessive air pollution. 1 He criticised ...

Background It is suggested that late initiation of toilet training contributes to functional gastrointestinal disorders in children. This study aims to evaluate if assisted infant toilet training can ...

Fluid therapy restores circulation by expanding extracellular fluid. However, a dispute has arisen regarding the nature of intravenous therapy for acutely ill children following the development of ...

Early Years Research Programme, Institute of Primary Care and Public Health, Cardiff University, Heath Park, Cardiff, UK Correspondence to Professor Alison Mary Kemp, Institute of Primary Care and ...

Correspondence to Professor T J Cole, Population, Policy and Practice Programme, UCL Institute of Child Health, London WC1N 1EH, UK; tim.cole{at}ucl.ac.uk Emperor Joseph II: My dear young man, don't ...

Correspondence to Dr Jenny M Kindblom, Pediatric Clinical Research Center, Queen Silvia Children’s Hospital, Vitaminvägen 21, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Goteborg 413 45, Sweden; ...

Objectives Near-peer teaching (NPT) is an approach to medical education that benefits both students and educators (1, 2). Paediatric trainees are expected to plan and deliver teaching (3) but lack ...

Academic Unit of Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Leeds, UK Correspondence to: Dr A J Field Academic Unit of Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 12a Clarendon Road, Leeds, LS2 9NN, UK; ...

Correspondence to Professor Ian Maconochie, Paediatric Emergency Medicine, St Mary's Hospital, London W2 1NY, UK; ian.maconochie{at}nhs.net Around the UK, commissioners have different models for ...

MRC National Survey of Health and Development, Royal Free & University College Medical School, University College London, UK Correspondence to: Dr M Richards MRC National Survey of Health and ...

Aims: To investigate whether it is possible to determine the age of a bruise in a child in clinical practice by means of a systematic review. Methods: An all language literature search up to 2004.

Department of Pediatrics, Bnai Zion Medical Center, Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Haifa, Israel Introduction: The aim of this study was to assess the clinical significance and prognosis of ...