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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Correspondence to Dr Fani Ladomenou, Department of Paediatric Immunology, Great Ormond Street Hospital, Great Ormond Street, London WC1N 3JH, UK; fladomenou{at}gmail.com Children are often referred to ...

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 ...

Idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) is a rare condition where intracranial hypertension is found in the context of normal brain parenchyma and no mass lesion, ventriculomegaly, underlying ...

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Determining severity of illness and undertaking an adequate risk assessment is a fundamental part of acute paediatric practice. This review highlights physiology, communication, heuristics and ...

Correspondence to Professor Robert Tulloh, Department of Paediatric Cardiology, Bristol Royal Hospital for Children, Upper Maudlin Street, Bristol BS2 8BJ, UK; Robert.Tulloh{at}bristol.ac.uk Objective ...

Correspondence to Dr Montserrat Doukrou, Paediatric and Adolescent Medicine, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, 11 floor Tower, 235 Euston Rd, London NW1 2PG, UK; ...

Correspondence to Dr Tanmoy Chakrabarty, Paediatric Neurology, Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children, Belfast BT12 6BE, UK; t.chak{at}yahoo.co.uk Creatine kinase (CK) remains an essential tool for ...

The EATERS mnemonic is a novel method for taking an allergy focused clinical history. It provides a degree of certainty for diagnosing food allergy and can be used in both IgE and non IgE mediated ...