It is relatively straightforward for an adult in England and Wales to make provisions for their future incapacity with respect to either health and welfare arrangements or financial affairs. The ...

Objective To describe the incidence and prevalence of multimorbidity in children and young people (CYP) aged <18 years and to ...

A consultation with a family can sometimes take on a circular quality. Confronted with a parent’s reluctance to vaccinate their child, the paediatrician’s familiar response is to reach for data, ...

Introduction Childhood obesity is a major public health challenge. Complications of Excess Weight (CEW) clinics were established in England in 2021 for children and young people (CYP) living with ...

1 Institute of Medical Engineering and Medical Physics, Cardiff School of Engineering, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK 2 Institute of Primary Care and Public Health, Cardiff School of Medicine, ...

2 Dept of Child Health, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Yorkhill, Glasgow, UK Correspondence to: Dr S F Ahmed, Dept of Child Health, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Yorkhill, Glasgow G3 8SJ, UK; ...

Correspondence to Dr Thomas Slater, Department of Paediatric Neurosciences, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Guy’s & St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London SE1 7EH, UK; tslater{at}doctors.org.uk ...

Objective To determine if administration of oral prednisolone to preschool children with acute wheeze alters respiratory outcomes. Design Double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled equivalence trial ...

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 ...

Anxiety disorders in childhood and adolescence are extremely common and are often associated with lifelong psychiatric disturbance. Consistent with DSM-5 and the extant literature, this review ...

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.

Objective Clinical trial sponsors spend considerable resources preparing informed consent (IC) and assent documentation for multinational paediatric clinical trial applications in Europe due to the ...