Evaluation and medical management of poisoning is often aided by laboratory tests. These range from basic analyses used ...

Crowding in emergency departments (EDs) is a familiar problem across health systems around the world. In most countries, the ...

As survival rates for children born extremely preterm (EP, <28 weeks’ gestation) have increased with advances in perinatal and neonatal care, their long-term functioning and quality of life assume ...

Introduction The CORAL (Impact of Corona Virus Pandemic on Allergic and Autoimmune Dysregulation in Infants Born During Lockdown) study reported a reduction in social communication milestones in ...

Objective The aim was to identify whether ethnic differences in coeliac disease autoimmunity (CDA) in children at 6 years of age exist, and when present, to evaluate how these differences may be ...

Objective Assess the mental health, physical health, cognitive and language development of 10-year old children in families where mothers have reported intimate partner violence (IPV) compared with ...

In contrast to other respiratory viruses, children have less severe symptoms when infected with the novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). In this review, we discuss ...

Correspondence to Dr Susan Byrne, Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin 2, Ireland; suabyrne{at}rcsi.ie Introduction ...

2 Great Ormond Street Hospital/Institute of Child Heath, NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, London, UK An estimated 14 million of the world’s children are blind. A blind child is more likely to live in ...

Correspondence to Dr Penelope A Bryant, Infectious Diseases, The Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3052, Australia; penelope.bryant{at}rch.org.au Objectives During the COVID-19 ...

Objectives To (1) describe the dispensing of asthma preventers at hospital discharge and estimate its effect on hospital readmissions, and (2) estimate the effect of community asthma preventer ...

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 ...