Objective The objective is to determine the incidence of sudden unexplained death in childhood (SUDC) for children aged ...

Aims The Under 5 clinic in this busy central hospital in Malawi is the initial point of care for acutely ill children who require admission; 200–300 children are seen in the clinic each day and up to ...

Introduction A large prospective birth cohort study was established in March 2007 to look at health outcomes of 13 000 babies booked for delivery at our hospital. Nearly half the population of babies ...

Correspondence to Dr Tryggve Nevéus, Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Uppsala University, Uppsala 75185, Sweden; Tryggve.Neveus{at}kbh.uu.se Objective According to international guidelines ...

It is well known that children are less likely to be severely affected by Covid 19 than the adult population, and therefore the pandemic earlier this year placed greater demand on adult services.

a Department of Paediatric Haematology/Oncology, Heinrich-Heine University Medical Centre, Düsseldorf, b Blood Centre, General Hospital, Hamburg-Harburg, Germany Dr Ulrich Göbel, Department of ...

Dr Ram Reifen, School of Nutritional Sciences, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, PO Box 12, Rehovot, Israel. Prolactin, a polypeptide hormone of anterior pituitary origin, has pronounced physiological ...

2 Department of Children’s Nursing, Rotherham General Hospital, UK 3 Department of Microbiology, Rotherham General Hospital, UK Correspondence to: Dr P Macfarlane Department of Child Health, Rotherham ...

1 Department of Community Health Sciences, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 2 Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, ...

Objective We aimed to explore the views of Malaysian children with asthma and their parents to enhance understanding of early influences on development of self-management skills. Design This is a ...

Sickle cell disease (SCD), one of the most common monogenetic diseases in the world, is associated with multisystemic complications that begin in childhood. Most of the babies homozygous for the ...

AIMS To examine the clinical and biological features of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia in children with Down's syndrome (DS), to compare their survival with other children, and to determine if entry to ...