Multiple long-term conditions (MLTC, previously referred to as multimorbidity) are defined as two or more chronic health ...

Paediatric sepsis remains a major cause of childhood mortality worldwide, despite substantial changes in its epidemiology, ...

Objective While the impact of earthquakes on children’s mental health is frequently discussed in the literature, the extent ...

Wrongful birth’. How does the law in the UK view a mother’s claim that her baby should never have been born? Twice in the last 15 years, we have encountered the situation where parents reject further ...

With the growing number of children and young people with complex care needs or life-limiting conditions, alternative routes for nutrition have been established (such as gastrostomy feeding). The ...

1 Institute of Medical Engineering and Medical Physics, Cardiff School of Engineering, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK 2 Institute of Primary Care and Public Health, Cardiff School of Medicine, ...

Correspondence to Professor David Cottrell, Leeds Institute of Health Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Leeds, Charles Thackrah Building, 101 Clarendon Road, Leeds LS2 9LJ, UK; ...

Correspondence to: Prof. M Levin, Department of Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine, Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG, UK; m.levin{at}ic.ac.uk Neisseria ...

Correspondence to Dr Adrian Plunkett, PICU, Birmingham Children's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham B4 6NH, UK; adrian.plunkett{at}bch.nhs.uk In healthcare, we tend to place greater emphasis ...

Aim To describe clinical features and outcome of a series of children with first-episode optic neuritis investigated in three paediatric neurology centres. Methods Databases were searched to identify ...

Correspondence to Dr Elizabeth Wraige, Department of Paediatric Neurology, Evelina London Children's Hospital, London, London, UK; Elizabeth.Wraige{at}gstt.nhs.uk This article is a review of current ...

Background The widespread use of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCV) has changed the epidemiology of invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) in children globally. Methods Multicentre prospective audit ...