Aims Children and young people (CYP) requiring Paediatric Critical Care (PCC) are cared for across 17 hospitals within the Thames Valley and Wessex (TV&W) Operational Delivery Network (ODN), with 2 ...

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 ...

Aims Nurse-led asthma clinics have been consistently evidenced to improve the quality of asthma care and reduce hospital admissions in children. Birmingham has greater childhood asthma prevalence and ...

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 ...

1 Department of Child Psychology, University Hospital of Wales, UK 2 Department of Child Health, University of Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff, UK Correspondence to: Dr S Channon, Consultant ...

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 ...