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, ...

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 ...

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

Objective Poor sleep quality impairs immune responses and pain tolerance, both key to recovery from acute illness. Hospitalised children and their co-sleeping parents also risk emotional lability and ...

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 ...

Objective To determine whether children with calcium-deficiency rickets have a better response to treatment with vitamin D and calcium than with calcium alone. Design Randomised controlled trial.

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; ...

Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) may affect all aspects of a child’s life. Indeed, it impacts not only on the child, but also on parents and siblings, causing disturbances to family and ...

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 ...

Participants Babies with an NTD and pregnancy outcome of live birth, stillbirth (≥20 weeks’ gestation) or termination of pregnancy (any gestation), as recorded in the Scottish Linked Congenital ...

Objective The UK national incidence of nutritional rickets is unknown. We aimed to describe the incidence, presentation and clinical management of children under 16 years with nutritional rickets in ...