Objective Neural tube defects (NTDs) are a preventable folate deficiency disorder; increasing folic acid intake through food fortification increases serum and red blood cell folate and reduces the ...

During intensive and long-lasting treatments, short-term or emergency care, children often undergo minor needle-related ...

It is unsettling when parents refuse treatment for their child’s serious illness based on their expectation of a miraculous ...

Hospitalised children predate 19th-century specialist children’s hospitals. Before Lister and anaesthesia, surgery was generally of short duration. In the 18th century, paediatric surgery was ...

Background The prevalence of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) among Chinese adolescents has continued to increase in recent years. Adolescents with IBD interrupted their schooling due to the diagnosis ...

Objectives To determine (1) which maternal and area characteristics are associated with reaching fidelity targets (the expected number of visits mothers should receive at each stage of the programme) ...

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 ...

2 Department Community Child Health, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Yorkhill, Glasgow G3 8SJ, UK 3 Fraser of Allander Neurosciences Unit, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Yorkhill, Glasgow G3 8SJ, ...

a Paediatric Intensive Care Unit, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, Great Ormond Street, London WC1N 3JH, UK, b Portex Anaesthesia, Intensive Therapy and Respiratory Medicine Unit, Institute ...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the ability of clinicians involved in the provision of paediatric intensive care to estimate cardiac index in ventilated children, based on physical examination and clinical and ...

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 ...