Introduction The number of children with life-limiting conditions has risen in recent decades, partly due to medical advances ...

In 2025, the UK government commissioned the Kingdon Review of Children’s Hearing Services, which identified ‘major problems’ ...

Purpose Avoidant restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID) is associated with acute and chronic physical health risks, but ...

Correspondence to Professor Paul Damian Losty, Institute of Child Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3BX, UK; paul.losty{at}liverpool.ac.uk Objective Horner’s syndrome (HS) is ...

Department of Paediatrics, University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, Coventry, UK Correspondence to Dr Matthew Thompson, Oxford University Department of Primary Health Care, Rosemary ...

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, paediatricians and child mental health practitioners have noticed an increase in tic symptoms in some children and adolescents already diagnosed with tic ...

Background The gold standard for diagnosis of meningitis is the isolation of a pathogen from cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) by culture or PCR. However, treatment is routinely commenced based on CSF ...

Background The number of children and young people (CYP) living with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions is rising. Paediatric palliative care is a relatively new aspect of healthcare, the ...

Objective To study reconstitution and preparation dosing errors of liquid oral medications given by caregivers to children. Methods A prospective observational study was carried out in the departments ...

A randomised open label study of the combined use of paracetamol and ibuprofen to rapidly reduce fever is reported. The advantage of using both medications is less than half a degree centigrade in the ...

1 Department of Anaesthesiology, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand 2 Department of Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacology, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand Correspondence to ...

Aims: To obtain age references for sitting height (SH), leg length (LL), and SH/H ratio in the Netherlands; to evaluate how SH standard deviation score (SDS), LL SDS, SH/H SDS, and SH/LL SDS are ...