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 ...

1 Department of Women's and Children's Health, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden 2 Department of Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala University Correspondence to: Dr G Annerén, Department of Genetics ...

Objectives The number of children with restrictive eating disorders requiring paediatric inpatient admission is rising nationally 1 2; a trend exacerbated during the COVID pandemic. 3–5 Despite this, ...

Objectives This systematic review focused on the physical signs of accidental anogenital injury in children under 18 and whether they can be distinguished from injuries caused by child sexual abuse ...

Background Haemolytic Disease of Newborn (HDN) caused by Rhesus or ABO incompatibility can cause severe haemolysis, jaundice and anaemia in infants. The direct antiglobulin test (DAT) is the test of ...

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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 ...

Allergic rhinitis (AR), the most common chronic disease in childhood is often ignored, misdiagnosed and/or mistreated. Undertreated AR impairs quality of life, exacerbates asthma and is a major factor ...

Aims Limited research has been carried out about their neurodevelopmental profile of Looked after Children (LAC) who are known to be more vulnerable to mental and physical health morbidities than ...