Evaluation and medical management of poisoning is often aided by laboratory tests. These range from basic analyses used ...

Crowding in emergency departments (EDs) is a familiar problem across health systems around the world. In most countries, the ...

Calley and colleagues provide a timely reminder of the high morbidity and mortality associated with pertussis (whooping cough ...

2 Great Ormond Street Hospital/Institute of Child Heath, NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, London, UK An estimated 14 million of the world’s children are blind. A blind child is more likely to live in ...

Correspondence to Dr Daryl R Cheng, The Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3052, Australia; daryl.cheng{at}rch.org.au The Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 has been linked to upper airway ...

Medical Research Council/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK Correspondence to Dr Alison Parkes, MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University ...

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 ...

6 National Institute for Health Research Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (NIHR CLAHRC) for North West London, London, UK Correspondence to Dr Subarna Chakravorty, ...

Professor R Grahame, Department of Rheumatology, Arthur Stanley House, 40–50 Tottenham Street, London W1P 9PG, UK. If you wish to reuse any or all of this article ...

Dr David Brewster, Flinders University and Maternal and Child Health, Royal Darwin Hospital, PO Box 41326, Casuarina, NT 0811, Australia. Intestinal permeability can be assessed non-invasively using ...

Correspondence to Dr J Fraser, Paediatric Intensive Care Unit, Directorate of Children’s Services, Bristol Royal Hospital for Children, Paul O’Gorman Building, Upper Maudlin Street, Bristol BS2 8BF, ...

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 ...