Introduction The Irish Office of the State Pathologist (OSP) provides a forensic pathology service for cases of criminal, ...

Asthma has little, if any, significant effect on attained adult height. Untreated asthma results in a delay of puberty by approximately 1.3 years, and pubertal delay is likely to explain the majority ...

The longest vertical distance between the upper and lower borders of the liver measured radiologically is suggested for estimating the size of the liver. This parameter, called vertical axis of the ...

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1 Division of Pediatric Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2 Division of Hematology and Oncology, The Hospital for Sick Children 3 Virology Laboratory, DPLM, The ...

Correspondence to Professor Steve E Humphries, Centre for Cardiovascular Genetics, British Heart Foundation Laboratories, Institute of Cardiovascular Science, The Rayne Building University College ...

OBJECTIVE To estimate physical activity energy expenditure (AEE) in groups of free living infants in the first year of life. DESIGN Mixed longitudinal study of 124 healthy infants, using 232 ...

Charts are presented which give centile standards for boys' and girls' heights at ages 2 to 9 when parents' height is allowed for. Mid-parent height is used (i.e. the average of father's and mother's ...

1 Lecturer in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, UK 2 Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University Department of Psychiatry, ...

Purpose Tracheostomy is a common intervention for adults admitted to intensive care; many are performed early and most are percutaneous. Our study aimed to elucidate current practice and indications ...

Correspondence to Dr Stefan Peterson, Chief of Health, UNICEF, New York NY 10017-4414, USA; speterson{at}unicef.org The Nurturing Care Framework, launched in May 2018, provides a policy roadmap for ...

Objectives To evaluate the potential associations between fever without a source (FWS) in children and detection of human enterovirus (HEV), human parechovirus (HPeV), adenovirus (AdV) and human ...