Background There is strong evidence that oral steroids improve outcomes in adult patients with Bell’s palsy, but no consensus for paediatric patients. Different management approaches exist. All use ...

1 Faculty of Medicine, St George’s Hospital Medical School, London, UK 2 Department of Ear, Nose and Throat, St George’s Hospitals NHS FT, London, UK 3 Department of Paediatrics, St George’s Hospitals ...

The hierarchy of evidence in assessing the effectiveness of interventions or treatments is explained, and the gold standard for evaluating the effectiveness of interventions, the randomised controlled ...

Objective To externally validate the Paediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) rule for identifying febrile ...

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Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is a potentially chronic infection that can be transmitted from mother to child with the risk of ...

BACKGROUND Measurements of heart rate variability (HRV) are increasingly used as markers of cardiac autonomic activity. AIM To examine circadian variation in heart rate and HRV in children. SUBJECTS A ...

Centre for Child and Adolescent Health, Department of Community Based Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK Correspondence to Professor Alan Emond, Centre for Child and Adolescent Health, ...

Correspondence to Carol Povey, Centre for Autism, The National Autistic Society, 393 City Road, London EC1V 1NG, UK; carol.povey{at}nas.org.uk For anyone, undergoing surgery is stressful. For children ...

Objective Estimate the incidence of herpes simplex virus (HSV) infections in infants under 90 days in the UK and Ireland and describe clinical presentation and outcomes. Design Prospective ...

The criminal law has long protected the fetus as part of the mother. The civil law recognises that once born, the child has independent rights distinct from its mother. Legally significant events ...

Medical Research Council/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK Correspondence to Dr Alison Parkes, MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University ...