In April 2024, the final report of the Cass Review, an independent review chaired by Dr Hilary Cass, was published, offering recommendations to improve gender identity services for children and young ...

BACKGROUND Pulmonary interstitial fibrosis in children is a disease of unknown aetiology, usually associated with a poor prognosis. METHODS In this case series we describe 11 children presenting over ...

Setting: Home visits in nine European regions by research associates who administered standard questionnaires to parents. Patients: 279 children with hemiplegia aged 8–12 years were recruited from ...

OBJECTIVE Patients with glucocorticoid deficiency need lifelong glucocorticoid replacement treatment. During acute stressful events, steroid dosage must be increased several times, which is often ...

Growth hormone (GH) therapy has now been available for over 5 decades, with all GH now biosynthetically produced, and administered by daily injection. Paediatric GH is currently licensed in six ...

1 Pulmonary and Allergy Disease Paediatric Unit, G Gaslini Institute, Genoa, Italy 2 Epidemiology and Biostatistics Unit, Giannina Gaslini Research Institute, Genoa, Italy Correspondence to Professor ...

Objective We aimed to explore the views of Malaysian children with asthma and their parents to enhance understanding of early influences on development of self-management skills. Design This is a ...

Background: Few dose ranging studies have investigated optimal dosing with inhaled corticosteroids in children with asthma. Aims: To compare the efficacy and tolerability of fluticasone propionate 100 ...

Background Delayed recognition of clinical deterioration can result in harm to patients. Parents/carers can often recognise ...

a Department of Child Life and Health, University of Edinburgh, b Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh Dr Steven Cunningham, Department of Child Life and Health, University of Edinburgh, 20 ...

Dr T Ubhi, Molecular Medicine Unit, Clinical Sciences Building, St James's University Hospital, Beckett St, Leeds LS9 7TF, UKMedbsu{at}Leeds.ac.uk BACKGROUND Cerebral palsy is the commonest cause of ...

Correspondence to Andreea Chiorean, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON L8S 4L8, Canada; andreea.chiorean{at}mail.utoronto.ca Objective To ...