Meningococcal disease remains a major global cause of meningitis and septicaemia. In Europe and other industrialised countries, serogroup B (MenB) is responsible for most cases of invasive ...

1 Epidemiology Branch, Division of Epidemiology, Statistics and Prevention Research, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA 2 ...

Background Prognostication after hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy (HIE) is challenging for both clinicians and families. The ability to predict neurodevelopmental outcomes can be improved by the ...

Aims: To determine benefits and risks for gastrostomy or jejunostomy feeding compared with oral feeding for children with cerebral palsy. Methods: Systematic review. Search strategy: electronic ...

Aim To survey sleep patterns and determinants of sleep quality in teenagers living in the United Kingdom (UK) and India. To study understanding amongst teenagers of the impact of poor sleep. Method ...

Paediatric Microbiology, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children and UCL Institute of Child Health, London, UK N J Sebire, Department of Paediatric Pathology, Great Ormond Street Hospital for ...

Maria Valentina Abate, Ingeborg Barisic, Michele Santoro, Alessio Coi, Joachim Tan, Ester Garne, Maria Loane, Ljubica Odak, Elisa Ballardini, Clara Cavero-Carbonell ...

Objective To validate a short parent-reported outcome (PRO) questionnaire in young boys with conditions affecting sex development (PRO-CSD). Design Consecutive sample cross-sectional study. Setting A ...

1 Paediatric Neurology, Department of Paediatric Neurology, Leicester Royal Infirmary, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, Leicester, UK 2 Department of Paediatric Neurology, Leicester Royal ...

Objectives To evaluate the appropriateness of the American Academy of Pediatrics’ (AAP) recommendation to no longer collect a urine culture (UC) in febrile infants ≥21 days old with negative ...

Aims Each year approximately 65,000 young people present to Emergency Departments (ED) as a result of alcohol intoxication. There is a large body of evidence in the written literature, detailing ways ...

Correspondence to Dr Afshin Zilanawala, Research Department of Epidemiology & Public Health, University College London, 1-19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 6BT, UK; afshin.zilanawala{at}ucl.ac.uk ...