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.

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 ...

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 ...

Aims: To evaluate ibuprofen population pharmacokinetics in a large series of data collected in children with cystic fibrosis (CF) treated with high doses of ibuprofen (59 patients; 2–18 years), and to ...

Department of Gastroenterology, Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Sydney, Australia A Morrow, Centre for Kidney Research, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Locked Bag 4001, Westmead NSW 2145, Sydney ...

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 ...

1 Academic Department of Paediatrics, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland 2 Department of Radiology, Galway University Hospital, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, ...

Paediatric Intensive Care Unit, Birmingham Children's Hospital, Birmingham, UK Correspondence to Dr Barnaby R Scholefield, Paediatric Intensive Care Unit, Birmingham Children's Hospital, Steelhouse ...

Objectives The NHS is committed to providing high quality, equitable, effective healthcare services that are responsive to all patients’ needs. 1 Audit aim: Assess adherence to offering interpretation ...

1 Neurodisability Service, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust, The Wolfson Centre, Mecklenburgh Square, London WC1N 2AP, UK 2 Institute of Child Health, University College London, 30 ...

Background The newborn and infant physical examination (NIPE) screening programme screens newborn babies within 72 hours of birth in England for congenital heart disease, congenital cataracts, ...