In all of Kirsty’s life, I never knew her to be afraid. We’ve been in some scary situations as a family: caught in a small ...

In 2025, a government-commissioned, independent, cross-sector report on the decline in UK clinical academia highlighted multiple challenges facing clinical researchers, both those medically qualified ...

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Objective To collate and systematically review the evidence on the impact of substandard housing on early child development in high-income countries. Design Systematic review. Methods Five databases ...

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Despite the existence of low-cost and effective interventions for childhood pneumonia and diarrhoea, these conditions remain two of the leading killers of young children. Based on feedback from health ...

Correspondence to Dr John Murphy, Department of Neonatology, The National Maternity Hospital, Holles Street, Dublin 2, Ireland; johnmurphy104{at}hotmail.com Aims Currently there is debate on how best ...

Advances in paediatric care mean that more children with complex medical problems (heart disease, neurodevelopmental problems and so on) are surviving their early years. This has important ...

One-third of the global population is aged under 20 years. For children with life-limiting conditions, palliative care services are required. However, despite 80% of global need occurring in low- and ...

Objective: The aim of this randomised controlled trial was to evaluate the effectiveness of a short, highly structured parent based language intervention group programme for 2-year-old children with ...

OBJECTIVE To derive height and weight growth reference curves for children with homozygous sickle cell disease. STUDY DESIGN Subjects (n = 315) were participants in a population based, longitudinal ...

Aims: To compare two treatments in common usage for children with atopic eczema: “wet wrap” bandages versus conventional topically applied ointments. Methods: A total of 50 children (age 4–27 months) ...