Improved measurement in early child development (ECD) is a strategic focus of the WHO, UNICEF and World Bank Nurturing Care Framework. However, evidence-based approaches to monitoring and evaluation ...

Images in paediatrics: Point break: atraumatic first rib fracture in a surfer (19 February, 2024) ...

Mixed longitudinal data on the physical changes at puberty in 228 normal boys are presented together with normal standards for stages of genital and pubic hair development. The genitalia began to ...

Aim Gentamicin is widely used to treat early neonatal sepsis as part of a regimen recommended by NICE. 1 However, it is frequently implicated in clinical incidents relating to errors in prescribing ...

Aims The UK has faced 3 major lockdowns since March 2020 due to the pandemic, affecting access to education, healthcare provision and social activities. Children with Down Syndrome are more likely to ...

Correspondence to Matthew A Jay, Legal Epidemiology Group, University College London, London WC1N 1EH, UK; matthew.jay.15{at}ucl.ac.uk Better understanding of the proportion of children who ever ...

Background Medicine use during pregnancy often causes concern for fetal harm. Roxithromycin, a macrolide antibiotic, is regarded as inadvisable to use during pregnancy due to lack of safety data.

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 ...

Background A male infant was admitted to the neonatal unit with respiratory distress, following delivery by emergency caesarean section at 36/40 for maternal illness (viraemia). The patient’s ...

Aims The COVID-19 pandemic has had an unprecedented impact on the lives of children and young people (CYP); with illness-related anxiety, social/physical distancing, mandatory quarantines, travel ...

Background FAS has been described in adults following acute injury to the brain. Children commonly develop an accent closer to that of their peers than their parents’ native accent. Children with ASD ...

Objectives Young people constitute 1.8 billion of the global population yet are often excluded from decision making, policy forming and agenda setting in healthcare (Oxfam, 2018). We aim to integrate ...