Objective Neonatal sepsis is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality, particularly in preterm infants. Despite its ...

Importance Vigilant clinical assessment is the key to preventing complications, including death, in infants at risk of neonatal withdrawal syndrome. The eat, sleep and console (ESC) is proposed as an ...

Objective To assess the impact of epidemics and pandemics on the utilisation of paediatric emergency care services to provide health policy advice. Setting Systematic review. Design Searches were ...

Background Clinical guidelines outline the use of hormones for masculinisation/feminisation in adolescents experiencing gender dysphoria or incongruence. Robust ...

Correspondence to Dr Nils Krone, Academic Unit of Child Health, Department of Oncology and Metabolism, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TH, UK; n.krone{at}sheffield.ac.uk Steroid biosynthesis ...

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 The ‘GP check’ at 6–8 weeks forms part of the selective surveillance system for developmental dysplasia of the hip (DDH) in the UK. It is imperative to pick up DDH within the first months of ...

Objective Magnet ingestion in children and young people (CYP) is associated with significant harm. We aimed to describe the incidence, circumstances and outcomes of magnet ingestion in CYP in the ...

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This May, the World Health Assembly (WHA) will vote on re-establishing a mandate for the WHO to address the health consequences of nuclear weapons and war.1 Health professionals and their associations ...

Background Despite the increased policy attention on ethnic health inequities since the COVID-19 pandemic, research on ethnicity and healthcare utilisation in children has largely been overlooked.