Correspondence to Jennifer Preston, Women's and Children's Health, University of Liverpool School of Life Sciences, Liverpool L12 2AP, UK; Jennifer.Preston{at}liverpool.ac.uk Background Engaging ...

Correspondence to Dr George du Toit, Division of Asthma, Allergy and Lung Biology, Department of Paediatric Allergy, King's College London at St Thomas’ Hospital, Westminster Bridge Road, London SE1 ...

As she lies in the bed that we have come to know as hers, her father, with love and devotion, brushes her long, dark hair before tying it into braids with colourful ribbons that she will never see.

Objective Parents of children with a chronic condition (CC) have a high prevalence of mental health (MH) difficulties. It is not known whether establishing screening programmes in paediatric clinics ...

Varicella, known as chickenpox, is caused by the varicella zoster virus (VZV), with an estimated 84 million cases annually. It primarily affects children, for most of whom it is a self-limiting ...

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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 procedures (ie, venepuncture, venous cannulation and puncture of central venous ...

It is unsettling when parents refuse treatment for their child’s serious illness based on their expectation of a miraculous cure. We have in 15 years encountered 26 cases where parents opposed serious ...

Objective This study aimed to examine profiles of co-occurrence of developmental disorders and their association with birth before full term. Design Latent class analysis of cohort data with linked ...