The lack of focus on young people as a group with particular healthcare needs in medical training and the health service underpins the difficulty that we have experienced as a profession in improving ...

Correspondence to Dr A P J Parker, Department of Paediatric Neurology, Box 107, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK; alasdair.parker{at}addenbrookes.nhs.uk We aim to provide a concise, ...

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Because of its relative prominence in infancy, a normal thymus gland can give the impression of cardiomegaly, a mediastinal mass or even lung pathology. Recognition of certain radiographic ...

1 Department of Women's and Children's Health, Neonatal Unit, Liverpool Women's Hospital, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK Inotropes are medicines that increase the force of cardiac muscle ...

Correspondence to Professor Deborah Murdoch-Eaton, Academic Unit of Medical Education, The Medical School, University of Sheffield, Beech Hill Road, Sheffield S10 2RX, UK; d.murdoch-eaton{at}sheffield ...

1 Division of Child Health, University of Nottingham, University Hospital Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham, UK 2 Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry University of Nottingham, Queen’s ...

Clinical medicine is a holistic attempt to provide the best care for patients. What is the relevance of evidence-based child health and guidelines in informing clinical practice? In this review, ...

Neonatal encephalopathy (NE) presents as reduced consciousness, often with seizures, abnormal tone, feeding and respiratory difficulties. The most common cause is secondary to a hypoxic-ischaemic ...

1 King's College London, MRC & Asthma UK Centre in Allergic Mechanisms of Asthma. Division of Asthma, Allergy and Lung Biology. Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK ...

2 Institute of Health & Society, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Correspondence to Nicholas D Embleton, Newcastle University, Institute of Health & Society, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 4LP, ...

2 Department of Paediatric Oncology, Royal Marsden NHS Trust, Sutton, UK 3 Co-founder of Paediatric Oncology Reference Team and Parent of Child Treated for Leukaemia, London, UK 4 Public and Patient ...